Deuteronomy 25:13

13 Don't have two different scales. You must not have one that weighs things heavier than they really are and another that weighs them lighter than they are.

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 Suppose two men are fighting. And the wife of one of them comes to save her husband from his attacker. So she reaches out and grabs hold of his sex organs.
12 Then you must cut off her hand. Don't feel sorry for her.
13 Don't have two different scales. You must not have one that weighs things heavier than they really are and another that weighs them lighter than they are.
14 And don't have two different sets of measures. You must not have one set that measures things larger than they really are and another that measures them smaller than they are.
15 You must use weights and measures that are honest and exact. Then you will live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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