Amos 8:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

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  • Hos 12:7 : 7 Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? 11 Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
  • 2 Kgs 4:23 : 23 And he saith, `Wherefore art thou going unto him to-day? -- neither new moon nor sabbath!' and she saith, `Peace `to thee'!'
  • Neh 13:15-21 : 15 In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision. 16 And the Tyrians have dwelt in it, bringing in fish, and every ware, and selling on sabbath to the sons of Judah and in Jerusalem. 17 And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, `What `is' this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day? 18 Thus did not your fathers do? and our God bringeth in on us all this evil, and on this city, and ye are adding fierceness on Israel, to pollute the sabbath.' 19 And it cometh to pass, when the gates of Jerusalem have been dark before the sabbath, that I speak, and the doors are shut, and I say, that they do not open them till after the sabbath; and of my servants I have stationed at the gates; there doth not come in a burden on the sabbath-day. 20 And they lodge -- the merchants and sellers of all ware -- at the outside of Jerusalem, once or twice, 21 and I testify against them, and say unto them, `Wherefore are ye lodging over-against the wall? if ye repeat `it', a hand I put forth upon you;' from that time they have not come in on the sabbath.
  • Num 28:11-15 : 11 `And in the beginnings of your months ye bring near a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones; 12 and three-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one bullock, and two-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 13 and a several tenth deal of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one lamb; a burnt-offering, a sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah; 14 and their libations are a half of the hin to a bullock, and a third of the hin to a ram, and a fourth of the hin to a lamb, of wine; this `is' the burnt-offering of every month for the months of the year; 15 and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to Jehovah; besides the continual burnt-offering it is prepared, and its libation.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. 14 Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. 15 Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; 16 for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
  • Ezek 45:10-12 : 10 Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have. 11 The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement. 12 And, the shekel `is' twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 `Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it; 9 six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work, 10 and the seventh day `is' a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --
  • Lev 19:36 : 36 righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I `am' Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
  • Num 10:10 : 10 `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.'
  • Mal 1:13 : 13 And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.
  • Rom 8:6-7 : 6 for the mind of the flesh `is' death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
  • Ps 81:3-4 : 3 Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, 4 For a statute to Israel it `is', An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 A just beam and balances `are' Jehovah's, His work `are' all the stones of the bag.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good.
  • Isa 1:13 : 13 Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!
  • Isa 58:13 : 13 If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word.

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