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 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.(A) 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long(B) in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.(C)

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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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13 (A)“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, (B)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For (C)all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are [a]an abomination to the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:16 detestable

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

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11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord;
    all the weights in the bag are of his making.(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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11 (A)Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s;
All the weights in the bag are His [a]work.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:11 concern

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

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

10 You are to use accurate scales,(A) an accurate ephah[a](B) and an accurate bath.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.

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

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10 “You shall have (A)honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

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