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Левит 19:35
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no unrighteousness: Leviticus 19:15
in meteyard: Deuteronomy 25:13, Deuteronomy 25:15, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Proverbs 20:10, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:13, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:1, Matthew 7:2
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General 1 Chronicles 23:29 - for all manner of measure Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Ezekiel 45:10 - General Hosea 12:7 - the balances Micah 6:10 - and Zechariah 7:9 - saying Acts 23:3 - for 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,.... This is repeated from Leviticus 19:15; and in order to lead on to some other laws and instructions; though Aben Ezra thinks this is said in connection with the preceding words, and in reference to the stranger, agreeably to Deuteronomy 1:16; but Jarchi refers it to what follows concerning weights and measures, and observes, that a measurer is a judge; and if he acts deceitfully, he perverts judgment, and does that which is detestable and abominable, and is the cause of the five following things said of a judge; he defiles the land, and profanes the name of God, and causes the Shechinah or divine Majesty to remove, or causes Israel to fall by the sword, or carries them captive out of their land:
in meteyard, in weight, or in measure; the first of these, according to Jarchi, signifies the measure of land, of fields, c. and so likewise of anything that is measured, not only by the rod or line, but by the yard or ell, as cloth and other things, whether broad or narrow, that are measured in their length and the second may respect the weight of all sorts of things that are weighed in scales, as money in former times, as well as various sorts of goods; and the last has respect to the measure of both dry and liquid things, by the bushel, peck, quart, pint, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Leviticus 14:10.
Leviticus 19:36
I am the Lord your God ... - A full stop should precede these words. They intraduce the formal conclusion to the whole string of precepts in this chapter, which are all enforced upon the ground of the election of the nation by Yahweh who had delivered them from the bondage of Egypt.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Leviticus 19:35. Ye shall do no unrighteousness — Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in the four following, which properly understood, comprise all that can occur between a man and his fellow.
1. JUDGMENT in all cases that come before the civil magistrate; he is to judge and decide according to the law.
2. METE-YARD, במדה bammiddah, in measures of length and surface, such as the reed, cubit, foot, span, hand's breadth, among the Jews; or ell, yard, foot, and inch, among us.
3. WEIGHT, במשכל bammishkal, in any thing that is weighed, the weights being all according to the standards kept for the purpose of trying the rest in the sanctuary, as appears from Exodus 30:13; 1 Chronicles 23:29; these weights were the talent, shekel, barleycorn, &c.
4. MEASURE, במשורה bammesurah, from which we derive our term. This refers to all measures of capacity, such as the homer, ephah, seah, hin, omer, kab, and log. See all these explained, Clarke "Exodus 16:16".