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Proverbs 16:11
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
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Proverbs 20:23
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.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.For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
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Leviticus 19:35-36
“‘ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.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.
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Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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Ezekiel 45:10-12
“ You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.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.The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty- five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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Amos 8:5-6
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;that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
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Micah 6:10-11
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?
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Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.