DISHONESTY

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• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 26:15

  Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

• Genesis 26:16

  Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

• Genesis 26:17

  Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:23

  In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:27

  Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.

• Genesis 29:30

  He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Genesis 30:31

  He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

• Genesis 30:32

  I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:35

  That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

• Genesis 30:36

  He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

• Genesis 30:39

  The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

• Genesis 30:41

  Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 30:43

  The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 31:36

  Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

• Genesis 31:37

  Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

• Genesis 31:38

  “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

• Genesis 31:39

  That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 31:40

  This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Genesis 31:41

  These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

• Genesis 31:42

  Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

• Genesis 34:15

  Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

• Genesis 34:16

  then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

• Genesis 34:17

  But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

• Genesis 34:18

  Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

• Genesis 34:19

  The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

• Genesis 34:20

  Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

• Genesis 34:21

  “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

• Genesis 34:22

  Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

• Genesis 34:23

  Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

• Genesis 34:24

  All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

• Genesis 34:25

  On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

• Genesis 34:26

  They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

• Genesis 34:27

  Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

• Genesis 34:28

  They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

• Genesis 34:29

  and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Genesis 34:31

  They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Leviticus 6:6

  He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

• Leviticus 6:7

  The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

• Leviticus 19:13

  “‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Leviticus 19:35

  “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

• Leviticus 19:36

  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.

• Deuteronomy 25:13

  You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

• Deuteronomy 25:14

  You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

• Deuteronomy 25:15

  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.

• Deuteronomy 25:16

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

• Joshua 7:11

  Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

• Joshua 7:12

  Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

• Joshua 7:13

  “Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”

• Joshua 7:14

  “‘In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

• Joshua 7:15

  It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

• Joshua 7:16

  So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

• Joshua 7:17

  He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

• Joshua 7:18

  He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

• Joshua 7:19

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Joshua 7:20

  Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

• Joshua 7:21

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Joshua 7:22

  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

• Joshua 7:23

  They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

• Joshua 7:24

  Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

• Joshua 7:25

  Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• Joshua 7:26

  They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

• Judges 17:2

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

• Judges 18:15

  They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

• Judges 18:16

  The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 18:17

  The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:18

  When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• Judges 18:19

  They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

• Judges 18:20

  The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

• Judges 18:21

  So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:3

  Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:12

  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

• 2 Samuel 14:13

  The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• 2 Samuel 14:15

  Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

• 2 Samuel 14:16

  For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

• 1 Kings 21:5

  But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• Job 24:2

  There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

• Job 24:3

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:4

  They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

• Job 24:5

  Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

• Job 24:6

  They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

• Job 24:7

  They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

• Job 24:8

  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

• Job 24:9

  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

• Job 24:10

  So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

• Job 24:11

  They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

• Psalms 37:21

  The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

• Psalms 50:18

  When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

• Psalms 62:10

  Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

• Proverbs 3:27

  Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

• Proverbs 3:28

  Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

• Proverbs 11:1

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

• Proverbs 20:10

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

• Proverbs 20:14

  “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

• Proverbs 20:17

  Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

• Proverbs 20:23

  Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

• Isaiah 32:7

  The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 7:10

  and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?

• Jeremiah 9:4

  “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

• Jeremiah 9:5

  Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Jeremiah 9:6

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:8

  Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he lays wait for him.

• Jeremiah 22:13

  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

• Ezekiel 22:29

  The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:2

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Amos 3:10

  “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

• Amos 8:5

  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;

• Micah 6:10

  Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

• Micah 6:11

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

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

• Zephaniah 1:9

  In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

• Zechariah 5:3

  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

• Zechariah 5:4

  I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

• Luke 16:1

  He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

• Luke 16:2

  He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

• Luke 16:3

  “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

• Luke 16:4

  I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’

• Luke 16:5

  Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

• Luke 16:6

  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• Luke 16:8

  “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

• John 12:6

  Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:6

  that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

• James 5:4

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.