the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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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.
"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
Don't carry around with you two weights, one heavy and the other light, and don't keep two measures at hand, one large and the other small. Use only one weight, a true and honest weight, and one measure, a true and honest measure, so that you will live a long time on the land that God , your God, is giving you. Dishonest weights and measures are an abomination to God , your God—all this corruption in business deals!
"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
These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.
And the years of Ismael’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.
And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,
And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.
And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.
(119-5) Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:
(1-4) I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains.
All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.
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 אבן ואבן "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 “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 25:13. Divers weights — אבן ואבן 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.
