Ezekiel 45:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You must use just balances, a just dry measure(an ephah), and a just liquid measure(a bath).

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land. 5 You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 6 We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 “I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much. 11 I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. 36 You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.
  • Prov 21:3 : 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  • Isa 5:10 : 10 Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the LORD your God is about to give you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 89%

    11The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.

    12The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.

    13“‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,

    14and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each cor(which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);

  • Lev 19:35-37
    3 verses
    82%

    35You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.

    36You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

    37You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the LORD.

  • 77%

    13You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.

    14You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.

    15You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the LORD your God is about to give you.

    16For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

  • 11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.

  • 1The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.

  • 10Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”

  • 10Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.

  • 9“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 23The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

    11I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

  • Ezek 4:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

    11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

  • 20You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Amos 8:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

    5You say,“When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We’re eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

  • 16These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.

  • 15Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

  • 5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

  • Zech 5:6-8
    3 verses
    68%

    6I asked,“What is it?” And he replied,“It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said,“This is their‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

    7Then a round lead cover was raised up, revealing a woman sitting inside the basket.

    8He then said,“This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.

  • 24He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

  • 5with one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil.

  • 6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

  • 5The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give, and a gallon of olive oil with an ephah.

  • 37He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

  • 5You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

  • 16Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

  • 17I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

  • 7God’s People Anticipate Vindication The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

  • 27As for teqel– you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.

  • 11“‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.

  • 36(Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)

  • 18Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.

  • 7He will provide a grain offering: an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes, and a gallon of olive oil with each ephah of grain.

  • 10I asked the messenger who was speaking to me,“Where are they taking the basket?”

  • 9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity– every good way.

  • 16From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

  • 20Yet you say,‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”

  • 24Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

  • 18You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.