You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Parallel translations
- KJV Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- BSB You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- NKJV “You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
- NASB “You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.
- NLT Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
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Cross-references · 9
- Mic 6:10–11Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
- Deut 25:15You 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.
- Prov 11:1A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
- Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Lev 19:35–36“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- Prov 20:10Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Prov 16:11Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
- Prov 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- Isa 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
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