Would I be innocent with wrong scales, and with a bag of false weights?
A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit, he loved to oppress.
‘Have right scales, right weights, a right ĕphah, and a right hin. I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.
A right scale and balances are of יהוה; All the weights in the bag are His work.
“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.
A false scale is an abomination to יהוה, But a perfect weight is His delight.
“Have right scales, and a right ĕphah, and a right bath.
saying, “When does the New Moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ĕphah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit,
And he said, “This is Wrongness!” And he threw her down into the ĕphah-measure, and threw the lead weight over its mouth.
Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are an abomination to יהוה.
