Leviticus 19:35-36
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
35 Do not act dishonestly in using measures of length or weight or capacity. 36 You shall have a true scale and true weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin.[a](A) I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
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13 (A)You shall not keep two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and the other light; 14 nor shall you keep two different ephahs[a] in your house, one large and the other small. 15 But use a full and just weight, a full and just ephah, so that you may have a long life on the land the Lord, your God, is giving you. 16 For everyone who does these things, everyone who does what is dishonest, is an abomination to the Lord, your God.(B)
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Micah 6:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 Am I to bear criminal hoarding
and the accursed short ephah?[a]
11 Shall I acquit crooked scales,
bags of false weights?
12 You whose wealthy are full of violence,
whose inhabitants speak falsehood
with deceitful tongues in their mouths!
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