Deuteronomy 25:15
13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
- ASV
- A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
- DARBY
- A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
- BLB
- And you shall have a complete and just stone, [and] you shall have a complete and just ephah, so that your days may be prolonged in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.
- ÅB
- hele og rette vektsteiner, hel og rett efa skal du ha; så skal du leve lenge i det land Herren din Gud gir deg.
- OTB
- Du må ha nøyaktige og ærlige vekter og mål, så du kan leve lenge i det landet Herren din Gud gir deg.
- B1930
- hele og rette vektstener, hel og rett efa skal du ha; så skal du leve lenge i det land Herren din Gud gir dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:40
Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 5:33
You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:9
and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read in contextEphesians 6:3
“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
Read in contextPsalms 34:12
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
Read in context1 Peter 3:10
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:18
Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
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