In our parasha, merchants and businessmen are commanded to conduct their transactions and business dealings fairly and honestly, and to make sure that their weights are accurate and exact in their measurements: “Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights [lit. stones], a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures [lit. Eiphah and Eiphah], a great and a small. A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee” (Deut.
