Primary Verses:
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Leviticus 19:35-36
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"Ye shall do no unrighteousness
in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Just balances, just
weights, a just ephah, and a just hin,
shall ye have: I am YHVH your God, which brought you out
of the land of Egypt."
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Deuteronomy 25:13-15
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"Thou
shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small. Thou shalt not have in thine
house divers measures, a great and a small. 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 YHVH thy God giveth thee."
Supporting Verses:
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Ezekiel 45:10-14
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"Ye shall have just balances,
and a just ephah, and a just bath. 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. And the
shekel shall be twenty gerahs:
twenty shekels, five
and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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:
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye
shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor,
which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an
homer:"
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