Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
In Context
12then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy.
14Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not be willing to accomplish iniquity in judgment, in lengths, in weights, in quantities.
Proverbs 11:1A deceitful scale is an abomination with the Lord, and a fair weighing is his will.
Proverbs 20:10Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
Amos 8:5You say, “When will the first day of the month be over, so we can sell our wares, and the Sabbath, so we can open the grain: in order that we may decrease the measure, and increase the price, and substitute deceitful scales,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:6-13
Marriage of a Brother's Wife. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let… Read the whole commentary →