“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
We have here some general rules of justice laid down both for prince and people, the rules of distributive and commutative justice; for godliness without honesty is but a form of godliness, will neither please God nor avail to the benefit of any people. Be it therefore enacted, by the authority of the church's King and God, 1.
Commenting on Ezekiel 45:9-12
Ye shall have just balances,.... That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of the civil magistrate to look after: and a just ephah, and a just bath; and not make the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances...
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. (c) Ephah and Bath are the same quantity save that an Ephah is a dry measure and a Bath liquid, .