Deuteronomy 25:15
Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
Deuteronomy 4:40and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — all the days.'
Deuteronomy 5:33in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
Deuteronomy 11:9and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed — a land flowing with milk and honey.
Psalms 34:12Who [is] the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?
Ephesians 6:3which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:14-19
Amalek to Be Destroyed. ( b. c. 1451.) 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when… Read the whole commentary →