36 You are to have honest balances,(A) honest weights, an honest dry measure,[a] and an honest liquid measure;[b](B) I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:36 Lit honest ephah; an ephah is a dry measure of grain equivalent to about 23 quarts.
  2. Leviticus 19:36 Lit honest hin; a hin is a liquid measure of about 1 gallon.

14 You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

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10 Differing weights and varying measures[a]
both are detestable to the Lord.(A)

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  1. Proverbs 20:10 Lit Stone and stone, measure and measure

10 “You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[a] and an honest liquid measure.[b](A)

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  1. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit and an honest bath

asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,(A)
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?(B)
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price[a]
and cheat with dishonest scales.(C)

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  1. Amos 8:5 Lit reduce the ephah and make the shekel great

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