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

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 For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

²⁶ For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

²⁷ As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

³ Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

⁴ And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

⁹ And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

⁵ A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

⁶ Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

⁷ Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

⁸ Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

⁹ A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

¹⁰ You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

¹¹ For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

⁷ So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

⁸ As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

⁹ This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

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

¹¹ The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

¹² And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels

⁶ He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

²³ Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

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

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

² Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

²³ And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.

²⁴ When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.

¹ But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

¹³ Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

¹⁴ Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

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.

¹⁶ For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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;