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36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:36 —

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Cross-References

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  • Exodus 20:2

    I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  • Proverbs 11:1

    A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

  • Deuteronomy 25:13-15

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

  • Proverbs 20:10

    Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

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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