the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Green's Literal Translation
Deuteronomy 25:14
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You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Don't have two different sets of measures in your house, one large and one small.
You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.
Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small:
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
"You shall not have in your house inaccurate measures, a large and a small.
a grettere and a lesse, nether a buyschel more and lesse schal be in thin hows.
Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small.
You are not to have in your house two sets of measures, one big, the other small.
Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.
Don't keep measures in your house that are too large or too small.
Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not haue in thine house diuers measures, a great, and a small.
You must not have in your house different ways of showing how big or small something is.
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, large and small.
Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, - a great and a small.
Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small:
You shall not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.
Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
There shall not be in your house for your use two kinds of measures.
Nether shalt thou haue in thyne house dyuerse measures, a greate and a small.
"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
and you must use full and honest measures.
"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah, Aiphah waaiphah; for this was the cost common measure among the Israelites, by which all the others were made and adjusted. They are not only forbidden to use divers weights and measures, one large or heavy to buy with, and another small and light to sell with, but they were not even allowed to keep such in the house. It is observable also, that these too common but dishonest actions are branded as "an abomination to the Lord," equally with idolatry, and other scandalous crimes. Deuteronomy 25:14
Cross-References
The burden of Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
For so the Lord has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shall not have in thine house divers, measures,.... Or, "an ephah and an ephah"; which was one sort of measure in use with the Jews, and held above a bushel; and is put for all others, which should be alike, and not
a great and a small; one to buy with, and another to sell by, as before observed; which would be to cheat both seller and buyer in their turns; see Amos 8:5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Leviticus 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luke 3:12 ff); and that “the prophets” (compare Ezekiel 45:10-12; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10-11) and “the Psalms” Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23, not less than “the Law,” especially insist on them.
Deuteronomy 25:13
Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with. Stones were used by the Jews instead of brass or lead for their weights, as less liable to lose anything through rust or wear.
Deuteronomy 25:17-19
It was not after the spirit or mission of the Law to aim at overcoming inveterate opposition by love and by attempts at conversion (contrast Luke 9:55-56). The law taught God’s hatred of sin and of rebellion against Him by enjoining the extinction of the obstinate sinner. The Amalekites were a kindred people Genesis 36:15-16; and living as they did in the peninsula of Sinai, they could not but have well known the mighty acts God had done for His people in Egypt and the Red Sea; yet they manifested from the first a persistent hostility to Israel (compare Exodus 17:8, and note; Numbers 14:45). They provoked therefore the sentence here pronounced, which was executed at last by Saul (1 Samuel 15:3 ff).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 25:14. Divers measures — Literally, an ephah and an ephah; one large, to buy thy neighbour's wares, another small, to sell thy own by. So there were knaves in all ages, and among all nations. Exodus 16:16; Exodus 16:16, and Leviticus 19:35; Leviticus 19:35.
