KJV King James Version
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Ezekiel 45:10
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
WEB World English Bible
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath—ye have.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 45
7 And [a portion shall be] for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy [portion], and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy [portion], and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length [shall be] over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.
8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and [the rest of] the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
12 And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
13 This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
Cross-references
Proverbs 11:1A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.Deuteronomy 25:15[But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Leviticus 19:35-36Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.Micah 6:10-11Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?Amos 8:4-6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.Proverbs 21:3To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.Isaiah 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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