Deuteronomy 25:13
11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
- KJV
- Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- WEB
- You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- BLB
- You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large and a small.
- ÅB
- Du skal ikke ha to slags vektsteiner i din pung, en stor og en liten;
- OTB
- Ha ikke forskjellige vekter i din pose—en tung, en lett.
- B1930
- Du skal ikke ha to slags vektstener i din pung, en stor og en liten;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Read in contextProverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:35–37
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Read in contextAmos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Read in contextEzekiel 45:10–11
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Read in contextMicah 6:11–12
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Read in contextProverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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