Deuteronomy 25:13-16
New English Translation
13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights,[a] a heavy and a light one.[b] 14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers,[c] a large and a small one. 15 You must have an accurate and correct[d] stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you. 16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent[e] to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 25:13 tn Heb “a stone and a stone.” The repetition of the singular noun here expresses diversity, as the following phrase indicates. See IBHS 116 §7.2.3c.
- Deuteronomy 25:13 tn Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English.
- Deuteronomy 25:14 tn Heb “an ephah and an ephah.” An ephah refers to a unit of dry measure roughly equivalent to five U.S. gallons (just under 20 liters). On the repetition of the term to indicate diversity, see IBHS 116 §7.2.3c.
- Deuteronomy 25:15 tn Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”
- Deuteronomy 25:16 tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, toʿevah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
Ezekiel 45:10-12
New English Translation
10 You must use just balances,[a] a just dry measure (an ephah),[b] and a just liquid measure (a bath).[c] 11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same: The bath will contain a tenth of a homer,[d] and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure. 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels[e] will be a mina for you.
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- Ezekiel 45:10 sn Previous legislation regarding this practice may be found in Lev 19:35-36; Deut 25:13-16; Mic 6:10-12.
- Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.
- Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.
- Ezekiel 45:11 sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
- Ezekiel 45:12 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”
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