Weights

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Must be just

• Leviticus 19:35–36 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 25:13–15 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
• Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
• Proverbs 20:10 Differing weights and unequal measures— both are detestable to the LORD.
• Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
• Micah 6:10–11 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed? Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

See Measure