Amos 8:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,

Cross References

Hosea 12:7

He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Leviticus 19:36

Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 1:13

Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Proverbs 20:23

Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

Proverbs 16:11

Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Proverbs 11:1

A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.

2 Kings 4:23

And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to-day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

Numbers 10:10

If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace-offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Isaiah 58:13

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day and call the sabbath delightful and the holy of the Lord glorious and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths,

Malachi 1:13

And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?

Exodus 31:13

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that thou keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations; that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

1 Samuel 20:5

And David said to Jonathan: Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, and I according to custom am wont to sit beside the king to eat. Let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.

Zechariah 5:6

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.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.