Amos 8:5

Catholic Public Domain Version

You say, "When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,

Cross References

2 Kings 4:23

And he said to her: "What is the reason that you would go to him? Today is not the new moon, and it is not the Sabbath." She responded, "I will go."

Exodus 31:13

"Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: See that you keep my Sabbath. For it is a sign between me and you among your generations, so that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctifies you.

Proverbs 11:1

A deceitful scale is an abomination with the Lord, and a fair weighing is his will.

Proverbs 16:11

Weights and scales are judgments of the Lord. And all the stones in the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:23

Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.

Isaiah 1:13

You should no longer offer sacrifice vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous.

Isaiah 58:13

If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,

Hosea 12:7

Canaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance, he has chosen false accusations.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim has said, "Nevertheless, I have become rich; I have found an idol for myself. All of my labors will not reveal to me the iniquity that I have committed."

Leviticus 19:36

Let the scales be just and the weights equal, let the dry measure be just and the liquid measure be equal. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt.

Zechariah 5:6

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."

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, "This is impiety." And he cast her into the middle of the container, and he sent the weight of lead into its mouth.

Malachi 1:13

And you have said, "Behold our labor," and you have exhaled it away, says the Lord of hosts. And you brought in by plunder the lame, and the sick, and brought it in as a gift. How can I receive this from your hand, says the Lord?

Numbers 10:10

If at any time you will have a banquet, and on feast days, and on the first days of the months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts and the peace-offering victims, so that they may be for you as a remembrance by your God. I am the Lord your God."

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths.

1 Samuel 20:5

Then David said to Jonathan: "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I am accustomed to sit in a seat beside the king to eat. Therefore, permit me that I may be hidden in the field, until the evening of the third day.