5 Who say, ‘When will the new moon festival be over,+ that we may sell our grain,

And the Sabbath,+ that we may offer grain for sale?

So that we may make the eʹphah* measure smaller

And the shekel* weight greater,

To falsify our scales of deception;+

 6 So that we may buy the needy for silver

And the poor for a pair of sandals,+

And sell the worthless part of the grain.’

2 “Woe to those who scheme what is harmful,

Who work out evil on their beds!

When morning light comes they carry it out,

Because it is in the power of their hand.+

 2 They desire fields and seize them;+

Also houses, and they take them;

They defraud a man of his house,+

A man of his inheritance.