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13 “You must use accurate scales when you weigh out merchandise, 14 and you must use full and honest measures. 15 Yes, always use honest weights and measures, so that you may enjoy a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 All who cheat with dishonest weights and measures are detestable to the Lord your God.

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13 “There shall not be for your use[a] in your bag two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one.[b] 14 There shall not be in your house for your use[c] two kinds of measures.[d] 15 Rather a full and honest weight shall be for your use;[e] there shall be for you a full and honest measure,[f] so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long. 16 For detestable to[g] Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things,[h] everyone who is acting[i] dishonestly.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:13 Literally “to you”
  2. Deuteronomy 25:13 Literally “stone and stone large and small”
  3. Deuteronomy 25:14 Literally “for you”
  4. Deuteronomy 25:14 Literally “ephah and ephah large and small”
  5. Deuteronomy 25:15 Literally “for you”
  6. Deuteronomy 25:15 Literally “an ephah”
  7. Deuteronomy 25:16 Or “for”
  8. Deuteronomy 25:16 Or “are all whoare doing”
  9. Deuteronomy 25:16 Or “all whoare acting”