10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10)See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights , an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers measures , a scanty measure to sell by and a large measure t…
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