Dishonest scales are an abomination to Adonai, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Micah 6:11 - Tree of Life Version Can I be pure with wicked balances? Or with a bag of deceptive 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? |
Dishonest scales are an abomination to Adonai, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Honest balances and scales are Adonai’s. All the weights in a bag are His handiwork.
“You are to have just balances, an honest dry measure and an honest liquid measure.
So you should return to your God, keep covenant loyalty and justice, and wait for your God continually.
You are to have honest balances, honest weights, honest bushel-measure and an honest gallon. I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
saying: ‘When will the New Moon be over, so we may sell grain? Or Shabbat, so we may open the wheat market? —Let’s reduce the ephah measure and increase the shekel, cheat with deceitful balances,
The angel exclaimed, ‘This is Wickedness!’ Then he shoved her back inside the measuring basket, throwing the lead weight over its mouth.
“You are not to have stones of different weights in your bag—large and small.