Amos 8:5
"Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?"
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- Nehemiah 13:15
"In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 12:7
"He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress."
Read in chapter → - Micah 6:10
"Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 25:13
"Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 19:36
"Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 11:1
"A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 1:13
"Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:11
"A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 20:8
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:23
"Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."
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