Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag differing weights, a gedolah and a ketannah.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
In Context
12Then thou shalt cut off her kaf (palm, hollow or flat of the hand), thine eye shall not pity her.
14Thou shalt not have in thine bais differing eifah (measures), a gedolah and a ketannah.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in scales, in weights, and dry measures.
Proverbs 11:1A balance of mirmah (dishonesty, deception) is abomination to Hashem, 1 but an even shelemah (perfect stone, just weight) is His ratzon. 1
Proverbs 20:10Differing weights, and differing measures, 1 both of them are alike to'evah to Hashem. 1
Amos 8:5Saying, When will the Rosh Chodesh be over, 1 that we may sell grain? 1 And Shabbos, that we may market wheat, 1 making the eifah (bushel) small, and the shekel great, 1 and falsifying the balances by mirmah (deceit)? 1
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 →