Deuteronomy 25:13
“ When you are buying or selling things, do not try to cheat people by having two kinds of weights, one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something, and two kinds of measuring baskets, one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
In Context
12do not act mercifully toward her; cut off her hand.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35‘When you are measuring things, to see how long they are or how much they weigh or how many there are,
Proverbs 11:1Yahweh detests people who use scales that do not weigh correctly; he is delighted with those who use correct weights on the scales.
Proverbs 20:10Yahweh detests people who use weights that are not right and measures that are not correct.
Amos 8:5You habitually say, “We wish that [RHQ] the new moon festival would end soon, in order that restrictions on doing business during the festival will be ended and we can sell grain. We wish that the Sabbath would end soon, in order that we will again be permitted to sell our wheat”— and when you sell it, you charge a big price for it, and you cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.
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 →