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Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 11.1
מֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה תּוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה וְאֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה רְצוֹנוֹ׃ A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; But a perfect weight is His delight.
בְּטוּב צַדִּיקִים תַּעֲלֹץ קִרְיָה וּבַאֲבֹד רְשָׁעִים רִנָּה׃ A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; But a perfect weight is His delight.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 25.15-25.16 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 25.15. אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה וָצֶדֶק יִהְיֶה־לָּךְ אֵיפָה שְׁלֵמָה וָצֶדֶק יִהְיֶה־לָּךְ לְמַעַן יַאֲרִיכוּ יָמֶיךָ עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ׃ 25.16. כִּי תוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ כָּל־עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה כֹּל עֹשֵׂה עָוֶל׃ 25.15. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." 25.16. For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God."
2. Hebrew Bible, Hosea, 12.8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 12.8. כְּנַעַן בְּיָדוֹ מֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה לַעֲשֹׁק אָהֵב׃ 12.8. As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. He loveth to oppress."
3. Hebrew Bible, Leviticus, 19.35-19.36, 26.26 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 19.35. לֹא־תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט בַּמִּדָּה בַּמִּשְׁקָל וּבַמְּשׂוּרָה׃ 19.36. מֹאזְנֵי צֶדֶק אַבְנֵי־צֶדֶק אֵיפַת צֶדֶק וְהִין צֶדֶק יִהְיֶה לָכֶם אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁר־הוֹצֵאתִי אֶתְכֶם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם׃ 26.26. בְּשִׁבְרִי לָכֶם מַטֵּה־לֶחֶם וְאָפוּ עֶשֶׂר נָשִׁים לַחְמְכֶם בְּתַנּוּר אֶחָד וְהֵשִׁיבוּ לַחְמְכֶם בַּמִּשְׁקָל וַאֲכַלְתֶּם וְלֹא תִשְׂבָּעוּ׃ 19.35. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure." 19.36. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt." 26.26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied."
4. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 1.7, 20.10 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 1.7. יִרְאַת יְהוָה רֵאשִׁית דָּעַת חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר אֱוִילִים בָּזוּ׃ 1.7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and discipline." 20.10. Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are abomination to the LORD."
5. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 1.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 1.1. אַשְׁרֵי־הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ בַּעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים לֹא עָמָד וּבְמוֹשַׁב לֵצִים לֹא יָשָׁב׃ 1.1. HAPPY IS the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful."
6. Hebrew Bible, Amos, 8.5-8.6 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) 8.5. לֵאמֹר מָתַי יַעֲבֹר הַחֹדֶשׁ וְנַשְׁבִּירָה שֶּׁבֶר וְהַשַּׁבָּת וְנִפְתְּחָה־בָּר לְהַקְטִין אֵיפָה וּלְהַגְדִּיל שֶׁקֶל וּלְעַוֵּת מֹאזְנֵי מִרְמָה׃ 8.6. לִקְנוֹת בַּכֶּסֶף דַּלִּים וְאֶבְיוֹן בַּעֲבוּר נַעֲלָיִם וּמַפַּל בַּר נַשְׁבִּיר׃ 8.5. Saying: ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth corn? Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances of deceit;" 8.6. That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the corn?’"
7. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 46.6 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 46.6. הַזָּלִים זָהָב מִכִּיס וְכֶסֶף בַּקָּנֶה יִשְׁקֹלוּ יִשְׂכְּרוּ צוֹרֵף וְיַעֲשֵׂהוּ אֵל יִסְגְּדוּ אַף־יִשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ׃ 46.6. Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; ye that hire a goldsmith, that he make it a god, to fall down thereto, yea, to worship."
8. Homer, Iliad, 7.479 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 7.479. /and some for slaves; and they made them a rich feast. So the whole night through the long-haired Achaeans feasted, and the Trojans likewise in the city, and their allies; and all night long Zeus, the counsellor, devised them evil, thundering in terrible wise. Then pale fear gat hold of them
9. Homer, Odyssey, 11.43 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
10. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 4.16, 45.9-45.10 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 4.16. וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלַי בֶּן־אָדָם הִנְנִי שֹׁבֵר מַטֵּה־לֶחֶם בִּירוּשָׁלִַם וְאָכְלוּ־לֶחֶם בְּמִשְׁקָל וּבִדְאָגָה וּמַיִם בִּמְשׂוּרָה וּבְשִׁמָּמוֹן יִשְׁתּוּ׃ 45.9. כֹּה־אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה רַב־לָכֶם נְשִׂיאֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חָמָס וָשֹׁד הָסִירוּ וּמִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה עֲשׂוּ הָרִימוּ גְרֻשֹׁתֵיכֶם מֵעַל עַמִּי נְאֻם אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה׃ 4.16. Moreover He said unto me: ‘Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;" 45.9. Thus saith the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel; remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from My people, saith the Lord GOD." 45.10. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath."
11. Anon., 1 Enoch, 93.9-93.10, 97.8-97.9, 98.2-98.3, 99.12, 102.9-102.10, 108.6-108.7 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 93.9. And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, And many shall be its deeds, And all its deeds shall be apostate. 97.8. Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: ' We have become rich with riches and have possessions; And have acquired everything we have desired. 97.9. And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver 98.2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman, And coloured garments more than a virgin: In royalty and in grandeur and in power, And in silver and in gold and in purple, And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water. 98.3. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire. 98.3. off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of 99.12. Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed. 102.9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and 108.6. fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.' And he said unto me: ' This place which thou seest-here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth 108.7. of the prophets-(even) the things that shall be. For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed
12. Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant, 13.11-13.13, 13.15-13.16 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
13. Dead Sea Scrolls, (Cairo Damascus Covenant) Cd-A, 13.11-13.13, 13.15-13.16 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
14. Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule, 5.14-5.20 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
15. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 40.25-40.26, 42.1-42.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 40.25. Gold and silver make the foot stand sure,but good counsel is esteemed more than both. 40.26. Riches and strength lift up the heart,but the fear of the Lord is better than both. There is no loss in the fear of the Lord,and with it there is no need to seek for help. 42.1. of the following things do not be ashamed,and do not let partiality lead you to sin: 42.1. while a virgin, lest she be defiled or become pregt in her fathers house;or having a husband, lest she prove unfaithful,or, though married, lest she be barren. 42.1. The pride of the heavenly heights is the clear firmament,the appearance of heaven in a spectacle of glory. 42.1. At the command of the Holy One they stand as ordered,they never relax in their watches. 42.2. of the law of the Most High and his covet,and of rendering judgment to acquit the ungodly; 42.2. No thought escapes him,and not one word is hidden from him. 42.2. The sun, when it appears, making proclamation as it goes forth,is a marvelous instrument, the work of the Most High. 42.2. The cold north wind blows,and ice freezes over the water;it rests upon every pool of water,and the water puts it on like a breastplate.
16. Anon., Epistle of Barnabas, 16.7-16.9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 16.7. I find then that there is a temple, How then shall it be built in the name of the Lord? Understand ye. Before we believed on God, the abode of our heart was corrupt and weak, a temple truly built by hands; for it was full of idolatry and was a house of demons, because we did whatsoever was contrary to God. 16.8. But it shall be built in the name of the Lord. Give heed then that the temple of the Lord may be built gloriously. 16.9. How? Understand ye. By receiving the remission of our sins and hoping on the Name we became new, created afresh from the beginning. Wherefore God dwelleth truly in our habitation within us. How? The word of his faith, the calling of his promise, the wisdom of the ordices, the commandments of the teaching, He Himself prophesying in us, He Himself dwelling in us, opening for us who had been in bondage unto death the door of the temple, which is the mouth, and giving us repentance leadeth us to the incorruptible temple.
17. New Testament, Matthew, 13.25 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 13.25. but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel also among the wheat, and went away.
18. Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradictions, 11.1037 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
19. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 2.3.10 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aune,david e.	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
basilides	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
bible (hebrew bible and/or new testament)	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
buying and selling	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
clement of alexandria,controversial or polemical aspects	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374, 375
clement of alexandria,on sophistry of heretics	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
commerce	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
death	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
denominations	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
destruction,sudden	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
dialectic,perversion of dialectic by heretics	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
economic,transactions	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
education,pedagogy	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
eristic,connection with heresy	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
ethical education,in book of proverbs	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
ethical education,judaism	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
ethical education,related/relationships between	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
evil	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
exegesis,in valentianianism	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
faithfulness,covenant	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
famine	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
gnosticism,specific doctrines	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374, 375
grain	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
hebrew bible	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
horse,black	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
horse,red	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
horseman,fourth	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
horseman,third	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
jewish people	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374
judaism	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
judgement,final	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
law,the,in clement	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
libertinism/license	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 289
means of payment,standard of value	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
old testament,relation to new testament,christ	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374
peace	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 180
poverty,threat of	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
prophets,jewish,educational methods in	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
prophets,jewish,proverbs,book of	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
prophets,jewish,riddles in	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
related/relationships between	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
rich,the,denunciation of	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
samaria	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
scales	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
sophistry,heresy connected to	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 289
tell el-qudeirat	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
torah	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
valentinians,notion of faith	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
wealth,unjust	Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 74
weight standard,judahite	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
weight standard	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
wergeld	Heymans (2021), The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World, 141
wisdom,wisdom literature,educational method'	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
wisdom,wisdom literature	Damm (2018), Religions and Education in Antiquity, 51
δόξα	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
κακοτεχνία	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
κατασοφίζεσθαι	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 289
σοφιστής	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
σοφίζειν	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289
ἀνειδωλοποιεῖν	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374
ἐλεγκτικός	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288
ἔκβασις	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 374
ὀνοματομάχος	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 288, 289