“You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- 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.
- NLT Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
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Quick answer
God requires honest weights and measures in all commerce.
Overview
Just balances and accurate measures are commanded as a matter of righteousness in everyday dealings. God cares deeply about integrity and fairness in the marketplace, not only in the sanctuary. This concern for honest dealing reflects God's own truthfulness and the practical holiness expected of His people.
Cross-references & the web
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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