10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We have here some general rules of justice laid down both for prince and people, the rules of distributive and commutative justice; for godliness without honesty is but a form of godliness, will neither please God nor avail to the benefit of any people. Be it therefore enacted, by the authority of the church’s King and God, 1. That princes do not oppress their subjects , but duly and faithfully ad…
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