Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,
And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.