35 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.

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15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, (A)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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13 (A)“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.

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For with what [a]judgment you judge, you will be judged; (A)and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:2 Condemnation

God Pleads with Israel

Hear now what the Lord says:

“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear your voice.

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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and (C)have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.

13 “Behold, therefore, I (D)beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.

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10 (A)Diverse weights and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.

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11 (A)Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s;
All the weights in the bag are His [a]work.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:11 concern

The Folly of Wickedness

11 (A)Dishonest[a] scales are an abomination to the Lord,
But a [b]just weight is His delight.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:1 deceptive
  2. Proverbs 11:1 Lit. perfect stone

15 ‘You shall do no injustice in (A)judgment. You shall not (B)be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

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Saying:

“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (A)the Sabbath,
That we may [a]trade wheat?
(B)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (C)deceit,
That we may buy the poor for (D)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:5 Lit. open

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