Ezekiel 45:10

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

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

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

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

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.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

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

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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,

Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

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

“ ‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

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.

You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.

So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.

Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

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

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

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

“ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’ ”

“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

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;

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 have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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.”