Левит 19:36

Русский синодальный перевод

да будут у вас весы верные, гири верные, ефа верная и гин верный.Я Господь, Бог ваш, Который вывел вас из земли Египетской.

Bible Verse Review
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Just balances: Proverbs 11:1

weights: Heb. stones

I am: Exodus 20:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:24 - hin Leviticus 22:33 - General Deuteronomy 25:13 - in thy bag 2 Samuel 14:26 - two hundred shekels 1 Chronicles 23:29 - for all manner of measure Proverbs 16:11 - just Ezekiel 45:10 - General Hosea 12:7 - the balances Hosea 12:9 - I that Amos 8:5 - making Micah 6:10 - and 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Just balances, just weights,.... Which were for such sort of things as were bought and sold by weight, and these were to be according to the custom and usage which universally obtained among them, or were fixed and settled by them; they were to be neither lighter nor heavier; they were not to have one sort to buy with, and another to sell with, which was not just, and was an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 11:1; for "weights", it is in the original text "stones", for those were formerly used in weighing, and were with us: hence it is still in use to say, so much by the stone. And according to Maimonides w, the Jews were not to make their weights neither of iron, nor of lead, nor of the rest of metals, lest they should rust and become light, but of polished rock, and the like;

a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have; the first of these was the measure of things dry, as corn, and the like, the latter of things liquid, as oil and wine; the one held three seahs or pecks, or ten omers, Exodus 16:36; or, according to a nicer calculation, the ephah held seven gallons, two quarts, and half a pint; and the other, according to some, held three quarts; but, as more exactly calculated, it held a wine gallon, and a little more than a quart, Exodus 16:36- :. Some Jewish writers x refer this to words, promises, and compacts, expressed by yea and nay, which they were to abide by; that their yea should be yea, and their nay, nay, Matthew 5:37; that their affirmation should be just, and so their negation:

I [am] the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; and therefore were under great obligations to observe his commands, as follows.

w Hilchot Genibah, c. 8. sect. 4. x Torath Cohanim apud Yalkut in loc. Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sheviith, c. 10. sect. 9.

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 19:36. Just balances — Scales, steel-yard, &c. Weights, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. Ephah, hin, &c., see before.