A false scale is an abomination to יהוה, But a perfect weight is His delight.
Micah 6:11 - The Scriptures 2009 Would I be innocent with wrong scales, and with a bag of false weights? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can I be pure [Myself, and acquit the man] with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? [I Thess. 4:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Common English Bible Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights Catholic Public Domain Version Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? |
A false scale is an abomination to יהוה, But a perfect weight is His delight.
A right scale and balances are of יהוה; All the weights in the bag are His work.
Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are an abomination to יהוה.
‘Have right scales, right weights, a right ĕphah, and a right hin. I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.
saying, “When does the New Moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ĕphah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit,
And he said, “This is Wrongness!” And he threw her down into the ĕphah-measure, and threw the lead weight over its mouth.
“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.