Deuteronomy 25:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Deuteronomy 25:13 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Leviticus 19:35-37
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. …
Ezekiel 45:10-11
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-19)

Here is, I. A law against deceitful weights and measures: they must not only not use them, but they must not have them, not have them in the bag, not have them in the house (Deut. 25:13, 14); for, if they had them, they would be strongly tempted to use them. They must not have a great weight and measure to buy by and a small one to sell by, for that was to cheat both ways, when either was bad enou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-16. Thou shalt not have ... divers weights--Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [Roberts]. (Compare Pr 16:11; 20:10).