‘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.
Zechariah 5:6 - The Scriptures 2009 And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕphah-measure that is going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth: Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I said, What is it? [What does it symbolize?] And he said, This that goes forth is an ephah[-sized vessel for separate grains all collected together]. This, he continued, is the symbol of the sinners mentioned above and is the resemblance of their iniquity throughout the whole land. [Amos 8:5.] American Standard Version (1901) And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land Common English Bible I said, “What’s this?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out. This is how it appears throughout the entire land.” Catholic Public Domain Version And I said, "What, then, is it?" And he said, "This is a container going forth." And he said, "This is their eye in all the earth." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth. |
‘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.
Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
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,
to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
“Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”
“And I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
“And see, a lead cover lifted up, and this: a woman sitting inside the ĕphah-measure!”