Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.
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- Prov 11:1 : 1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
- Prov 20:23 : 23 The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.
- Amos 8:4-7 : 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!” 7 The LORD confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob:“I swear I will never forget all you have done!
- 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.
- Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
- Lev 19:35 : 35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
- Deut 25:13-15 : 13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one. 14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one. 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.
- Deut 7:25-26 : 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God. 26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
- Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
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23 The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.
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1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.
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.
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