“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,[a](A) princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right.(B) Put an end to your evictions of my people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. 10 “You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[b] and an honest liquid measure.[c](C) 11 The dry measure[d] and the liquid measure[e] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons[f] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[g] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:9 Lit Enough of you
  2. 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  3. 45:10 Lit and an honest bath
  4. 45:11 Lit The ephah
  5. 45:11 Lit the bath
  6. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  7. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  8. 45:11 Lit be based on the homer

Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

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