17Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. …
Vex the Midianites, and smite them: …
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
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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