Honest Weights and Measures

13 “Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.(A) 14 Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller. 15 You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.(B)

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13 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.

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

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11 Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag are his concern.(A)

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11 A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

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10 “You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[a] and an honest liquid measure.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  2. 45:10 Lit and an honest bath

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

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