13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
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?
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. …
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. …
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 e…
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