Deuteronomy 25:13
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 25:13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
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Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s all right.”
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
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.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
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;
I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
“You shall not steal.
“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,
“ ‘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.
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
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.
“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
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.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”