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Deuteronomy 25:13
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“Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
"There shall not be for your use in your bag two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one.
"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
Don't carry two sets of weights with you, one heavy and one light.
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
"You shall not have in your bag inaccurate weights, a heavy and a light [so you can cheat others].
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Moses said to Israel: Don't try to cheat people by having two sets of weights or measures, one to get more when you are buying, and the other to give less when you are selling.
"You are not to have in your pack two sets of weights, one heavy, the other light.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
"Don't use weights that are too heavy or too light.
You shall not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
"Do not cheat when you use weights and measures.
You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone weight , a great and a small.
Thou shalt not haue in yi bagg two maner of weightes, a greate and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of wayghtes, a great and a small:
Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge diuers weights, a great, and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Thou schalt not haue in the bagge dyuerse weiytis,
`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small:
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.
"You must use accurate scales when you weigh out merchandise,
"You must not have two different weights in your bag, one large and one small.
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, large and small.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, - a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in thy bag: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Proverbs 20:10, Ezekiel 45:10, Ezekiel 45:11, Amos 8:5, Micah 6:11, Micah 6:12
divers weights: Heb. a stone and a stone, Aivenwaaiven; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shews us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Leviticus 19:15 - General Deuteronomy 16:20 - That which Micah 6:10 - and 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go
Cross-References
Ishmael lived 137 years. When he breathed his last and died he was buried with his family. His children settled down all the way from Havilah near Egypt eastward to Shur in the direction of Assyria. The Ishmaelites didn't get along with any of their kin.
One day Jacob was cooking a stew. Esau came in from the field, starved. Esau said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stew—I'm starved!" That's how he came to be called Edom (Red).
Jacob said, "Make me a trade: my stew for your rights as the firstborn."
I'm doomed to live in Meshech, cursed with a home in Kedar, My whole life lived camping among quarreling neighbors. I'm all for peace, but the minute I tell them so, they go to war!
I am weathered but still elegant, oh, dear sisters in Jerusalem, Weather-darkened like Kedar desert tents, time-softened like Solomon's Temple hangings. Don't look down on me because I'm dark, darkened by the sun's harsh rays. My brothers ridiculed me and sent me to work in the fields. They made me care for the face of the earth, but I had no time to care for my own face.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" y; it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different:
a great and a small; great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it.
y ××× ×××× "lapis et lapis", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator.
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 âthe prophetsâ (compare Ezekiel 45:10-12; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10-11) and âthe Psalmsâ Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23, not less than âthe Law,â 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 Godâs 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 25:13. Divers weights — ××× ×××× eben vaaben, a stone and a stone, because the weights were anciently made of stone, and some had two sets of stones, a light and a heavy. With the latter they bought their wares, by the former they sold them. In our own country this was once a common case; smooth, round, or oval stones were generally chosen by the simple country people for selling their wares, especially such as were sold in pounds and half pounds. And hence the term a stone weight, which is still in use, though lead or iron be the matter that is used as a counterpoise: but the name itself shows us that a stone of a certain weight was the material formerly used as a weight. See the notes on Leviticus 19:35-36.
