KJV King James Version
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Leviticus 19:36
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
WEB World English Bible
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
ASV American Standard Version
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 19
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34 [But] the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
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מֹ֧אזְנֵיH3976 · mo.zenbalanceצֶ֣דֶקH6664 · tse.deqrighteousnessאַבְנֵי־H68 · e.venstoneצֶ֗דֶקH6664 · tse.deqrighteousnessאֵ֥יפַתH374 · e.phahephahצֶ֛דֶקH6664 · tse.deqrighteousnessוְהִ֥יןH1969 · hinhinצֶ֖דֶקH6664 · tse.deqrighteousnessיִהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֑םH9036 · khemyouאֲנִי֙H589 · a.niIיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔םH430 · e.lo.himGodאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichהוֹצֵ֥אתִיH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeאֶתְכֶ֖םH853 · et[Obj.]מֵאֶ֥רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמִצְרָֽיִם׃H4714 · mits.ra.yimEgypt
Cross-references
Exodus 20:2I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Proverbs 11:1A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.Deuteronomy 25:13-15Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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