Amos 8:5
Saying, gWhen will the new 3moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the hsabbath, that we may 4set forth wheat, imaking the ephah small, and the shekel great, and 5falsifying the balances by deceit?
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
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Psalms 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Isaiah 58:3 ¶Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isaiah 58:13 ¶If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Malachi 1:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
2 Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Or, month.
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Nehemiah 13:15 ¶In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah 13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
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Heb. open.
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Micah 6:10 ¶Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Deuteronomy 25:13 ¶Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 11:1 A FALSE balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Ezekiel 45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Hosea 12:7 ¶He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Proverbs 20:23 Divers weights are an abom-ination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.