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Featured free lesson · Honesty · week 2 of 4

The Two Weights

In the old markets, a cheat and an honest merchant looked exactly the same — until you watched the scale.

Before cash registers, everything was bought and sold on a balance — and a cheat carried two sets of weights in his bag: heavy ones for buying, light ones for selling. Same scale, same smile. This week the trail digs up the root of honesty: the old Book’s just weight, the locked-away temple standard, and the Egyptians who pictured a whole life weighed against a single feather of truth.

• The merchant’s bag — how the two-weights cheat worked
• Where honesty comes from — the just weight, thousands of years old
• The heart and the feather — honesty as the measure of a life
• Copywork — Proverbs 11:1, old words worth keeping
• Three questions, no wrong answers — for the table
• Parent page — free to print & share with any family

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