A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Micah 6:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can I be pure [Myself, and acquit the man] with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? [I Thess. 4:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Common English Bible Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights Catholic Public Domain Version Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? |
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.
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.