Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just efah, and a just bath.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Just balances, just weights, a just efah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Shabbat, that we may market wheat, making the efah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
He said, *This is Wickedness;* and he threw her down into the midst of the efah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.