Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
In Context
12Then shalt thou cut off her hand, thy eye shall not have pity.
14Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Proverbs 11:1Balances of deceit are an abomination of the Lord; but a full weight [obtaineth] his favor.
Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, and divers measures, are both of them alike an abomination of the Lord.
Amos 8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell provision? and the sabbath, that we may open the corn-warehouses, making the ephah small, and increasing the shekel, and cheating with deceitful balances?
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 →