Amos 8:5

5 	saying, “When will the unew moon be over,
		that we may sell grain?
	And the Sabbath,
		that we may offer wheat for sale,
	that we may make the ephah small and the shekel1 great
		and deal deceitfully with vfalse balances,

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Numbers 10:10
On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”

Numbers 28:11–15
“At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 29:6
besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 20:23
Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

Hosea 12:7
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Micah 6:11
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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