KJV King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
WEB World English Bible
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 25
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her].
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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Proverbs 11:1A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.Amos 8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.Leviticus 19:35-37Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.Ezekiel 45:10-11Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.Micah 6:11-12Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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