And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah that goes forth.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
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.
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,
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,
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.”
And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!