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13 (A)You shall not have in your bag [a]differing weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house [b]differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just [c]measure, (B)that your days may be prolonged in the [d]land which Yahweh your God gives you. 16 For (C)everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly, is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:13 Lit a stone and a stone
  2. Deuteronomy 25:14 Lit an ephah and an ephah
  3. Deuteronomy 25:15 Lit ephah
  4. Deuteronomy 25:15 Lit ground

Honest business practices

13 Don’t have two different types of money weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one. 14 Don’t have two different types of ephahs in your house, a large one and a small one. 15 Instead, you must have only one weight, complete and correct, and only one ephah, also complete and correct, so that your life might be long in the fertile land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 What’s more, all who do such things, all who do business dishonestly, are detestable to the Lord your God.

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