Proverbs 11:1
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The Folly of Wickedness
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- Proverbs 11:1 deceptive
- Proverbs 11:1 Lit. perfect stone
Deuteronomy 25:13-16
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13 (A)“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, (B)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For (C)all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are [a]an abomination to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 25:16 detestable
Proverbs 20:23
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23 Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord,
And dishonest scales are not good.
Proverbs 16:11
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- Proverbs 16:11 concern
Leviticus 19:35-36
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35 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. 36 You shall have (A)honest scales, 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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Proverbs 20:10
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10 (A)Diverse weights and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
Hosea 12:7
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- Hosea 12:7 Or merchant
Amos 8:5-6
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5 Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (A)the Sabbath,
That we may [a]trade wheat?
(B)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (C)deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for (D)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”
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- Amos 8:5 Lit. open
Ezekiel 45:10-12
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10 “You shall have (A)honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The (B)shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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Micah 6:10-11
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10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And the short measure that is an abomination?
11 Shall I count pure those with (A)the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights?
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