Deuteronomy 25:13
Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
In Context
12you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.
14Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's small.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Don't use dishonest weights and measures.
Proverbs 11:1The Lord hates dishonest scales, but accurate weights please him.
Proverbs 20:10The Lord hates both dishonest weights and dishonest measures.
Amos 8:5You who ask, “When will the holy day be over so we can get back to selling grain? When will the Sabbath be over so we can open our storehouses, and cheat people with short measures and unfair 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 →