KJV King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
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Deuteronomy 25:14
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
WEB World English Bible
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 25
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.
17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
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