And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕphah-measure that is going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth:
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,
‘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.
“And see, a lead cover lifted up, and this: a woman sitting inside the ĕphah-measure!”
Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
“Are there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?”
“And I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.