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AMOS
CHAPTER 8
  5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the asabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the bephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the cbalances by deceit?

Footnotes
5a
b
Lev. 19: 36.
  36 Just balances, just aweights, a just bephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Deut. 25: 15 (14-15).
  15 But thou shalt have a aperfect and just weight, a perfect and just bmeasure shalt thou have: that thy days may be clengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ezek. 45: 10.
  10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just aephah, and a just bath.
c
Prov. 11: 1.
  1 aA false bbalance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.