¹⁰ Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

⁴ Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

⁵ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

⁶ Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

¹⁰ Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

¹¹ Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

³⁵ Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

³⁶ Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

¹ Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

¹¹ True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

¹⁵ But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁰ Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

³ To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

¹⁰ For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.