THEOSISProverbs 20:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.
תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה אֶ֣בֶן וָאָ֑בֶן וּמֹאזְנֵ֖י מִרְמָ֣ה לֹא־טֽוֹב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 20:10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
- Prov 11:1A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
- Ezek 45:10You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.
- Hos 12:7He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
- Amos 8:5Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,