Deuteronomy 25:13

13 Never carry two sets of weights, a heavier one and a lighter one.

Deuteronomy 25:13 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 25:13

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights
Or, "a stone and a stone" F25; it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different:

a great and a small;
great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it.


FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Nbaw Nba) "lapis et lapis", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator.

Deuteronomy 25:13 In-Context

11 This is what you must do when two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from the man who is beating him. If she tries to stop the fight by grabbing the other man's genitals,
12 cut off her hand. Have no pity on her.
13 Never carry two sets of weights, a heavier one and a lighter one.
14 Never have two kinds of measures in your house, a larger one and a smaller one.
15 Use accurate and honest weights and measures. Then you will live for a long time in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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