Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s; All the weights in the bag are His work.
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
“A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.
“You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?
Saying: “When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,
Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, And dishonest scales are not good.