Leviticus 19:35-37 (ESV Strong's)
35 “You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD.”
Business Should be for God’s Holiness
The entire book of Leviticus is the Holiness of God. In these particular chapters, Moses gives us a great variety of ways in which holiness needs to be practiced. This is true of the priest and the people. In the context of this chapter, the above verses are following specific instructions to the nation about how they engage with each other and the world around them. Because God’s holiness is at stake, how we conduct our business affairs also reflects that holiness. God’s people ought not to be crooked in their business affairs. The method by which items were sold in the marketplace was with a variety of weights. If you purchase a pound of this or a pound of that, it would be weighed on one side and the weight would be on the other side. Corrupt business owners would bore out the weight so that it might be the size of a particular weight, but not actually weigh that amount. They would swindle, ever so lightly, the purchaser of their products. God is telling His people that since He IS Holly, so, too, should their business practice reflect that holiness. Cheating a customer or client out of something, even a small amount, might seem fair game in today’s economic system. Yet, from long ago God wanted HIS people to maintain holiness when came to the board room.
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