KJV King James Version
Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
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Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 20
7 The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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Proverbs 20:23Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.Proverbs 11:1A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.Deuteronomy 25:13-15Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.Micah 6:10-11Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.Amos 8:4-7Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Deuteronomy 7:25-26The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.
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