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¹A deceitful scale is an abomination with the Lord, and a fair weighing is his will.

¹²And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and he cast out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of the vendors of doves. ¹³And he said to them: “It is written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it into a den of robbers.’ ”

¹⁴“It is bad, it is bad,” says every buyer; and when he has withdrawn, then he will boast.

³⁵Do not be willing to accomplish iniquity in judgment, in lengths, in weights, in quantities. ³⁶Let the scales be just and the weights equal, let the dry measure be just and the liquid measure be equal. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt.

¹³But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,” ¹⁴consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow. ¹⁵For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that. ¹⁶But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked. ¹⁷Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

¹⁶Whoever slanders the poor, so as to augment his own riches, will give it away to one who is richer, and will be in need.

⁴Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without. ⁵You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales, ⁶in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?”

¹⁴When you will sell anything to your fellow citizen, or buy anything from him, do not cause your brother grief, but buy from him according to the number of years from the Jubilee,

¹⁰Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.

²³Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.

¹⁶And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.”

¹³You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag. ¹⁴Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure. ¹⁵You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you. ¹⁶For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.

²⁶Whoever hides away grain shall be cursed among the people. But a blessing is upon the head of those who sell it.

²¹They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God.”