35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-37)Here is, I. A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Lev. 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation. 1. Sabbaths must be religiously observed, and not those times mentioned (Lev. 19:26) to which the heathen had a superstitious regard. 2. The…
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