Honest Weights and Measures

13 “Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.(A) 14 Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller. 15 You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

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13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.(A) 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long(B) in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

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23 Differing weights[a] are detestable to the Lord,(A)
and dishonest scales(B) are unfair.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:23 Lit A stone and a stone

23 The Lord detests differing weights,
    and dishonest scales do not please him.(A)

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A merchant loves to extort(A)
with dishonest scales in his hands.(B)

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The merchant uses dishonest scales(A)
    and loves to defraud.

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