“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.”
Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. The positive command: honest scales, honest weights, honest grain measures, honest liquid measures. The I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt grounds the commercial ethics in the covenant identity. The God who brought Israel out of Egypt is the God who commands honest commerce. The Exodus liberation that freed Israel from economic exploitation (forced labor) creates the obligation to avoid economic exploitation of others through dishonest measures.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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