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10     Can I forget[a] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
    and the despicable false measure?(A)

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  1. 6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

saying, “When will the new moon be over
    so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
    so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
    and practice deceit with false balances,(A)
buying the poor for silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(B)

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10 They do not know how to do right, says the Lord,
    those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.(A)

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26 For the wicked are found among my people.
    They lie in wait like hunters;
destroyers,[a] they catch humans.(A)
27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;(B)

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  1. 5.26 Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 Diverse weights and diverse measures
    are both alike an abomination to the Lord.(A)

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Warning to Rich Oppressors

Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.(A) Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure[a] during the last days. Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(B)

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  1. 5.3 Or will eat your flesh, since you have stored up fire

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land, for everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who has sworn falsely,[a] as is forbidden on the other side, has gone unpunished.(A) I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”(B)

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  1. 5.3 The word falsely added from verse 4

On that day I will punish
    all who leap over the threshold,
who fill their master’s house
    with violence and fraud.(A)

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Moreover, wealth[a] is treacherous;
    the arrogant do not endure.
They open their throats wide as Sheol;
    like Death they never have enough.
They gather all nations for themselves
    and collect all peoples as their own.(A)

The Woes of the Wicked

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them,

“Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!”
    How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?(B)
Will not your own creditors suddenly rise
    and those who make you tremble wake up?
    Then you will be plunder for them.
Because you have plundered many nations,
    all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you—
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who live in them.(C)

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house,
    setting your nest on high
    to be safe from the reach of harm!”(D)
10 You have devised shame for your house
    by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.(E)
11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
    and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.

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  1. 2.5 Q mss: MT wine

A trader in whose hands are false balances,
    he loves to oppress.(A)
Ephraim has said, “Ah, I am rich;
    I have gained wealth for myself;
in all of my gain
    no offense has been found in me
    that would be sin.”[a](B)

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  1. 12.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.(A)

Weights and Measures

10 “You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.[a](B) 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one-tenth of a homer and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make a mina for you.(C)

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  1. 45.10 A Heb measure of volume

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a snare[a] of death.(A)

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  1. 21.6 Gk: Heb seekers

23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord,
    and false scales are not good.

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11 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
    but an accurate weight is his delight.(A)

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Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

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23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents.” He urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them in front of Gehazi.[a] 24 When he came to the citadel, he took the bags[b] from them and stored them inside; he dismissed the men, and they left.

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  1. 5.23 Heb him
  2. 5.24 Heb lacks the bags

The Sin of Achan and Its Punishment

But the Israelites broke faith in regard to the devoted things: Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things, and the anger of the Lord burned against the Israelites.(A)

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13 “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, large and small.(A) 14 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, large and small. 15 You shall have only a full and honest weight; you shall have only a full and honest measure, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are abhorrent to the Lord your God.(B)

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35 “You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity. 36 You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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