Proverbs 20:10

World English Bible (2000)

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; 6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'" 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? 11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

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  • Prov 20:23-24
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    23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

    24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

    1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

  • Prov 16:10-12
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    80%

    10 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

    11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

    12 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Deut 25:13-16
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    80%

    13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

    14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

    15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

    16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 19:35-36
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    78%

    35 "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

    36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Mic 6:10-11
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    10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

    11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Prov 20:11
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    11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
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    10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

    11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.

  • Prov 29:27
    72%

    27 A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

  • Prov 6:16
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    16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

  • Prov 20:9
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    9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Prov 21:2-3
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    2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

    3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

  • Zech 5:8
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    8 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

  • Hag 2:16
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    16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

  • Zech 8:17
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    17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.

  • Isa 5:20
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    20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • Deut 18:12
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    12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Job 28:25
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    25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

  • Job 31:6
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    6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

  • Prov 15:26
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    26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

  • Lev 18:27
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    27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
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    7 I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Isa 10:1
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    1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

  • Prov 21:27
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    27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

  • Deut 7:26
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    26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  • Ezek 11:21
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    21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

  • Deut 17:1
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    1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 18:30
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    30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
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    37 In this way, he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.