Nahum III, 1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not.
4. Fraud and Cheating Forbidden.
Lev. XIX, 11. Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Prov. XX, 14. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Lev. XIX, 35. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
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.
Lev. XXV, 14. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.
Deut. XXV, 13. Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small:
14. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small:
15. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.