Deuteronomy 25:13

13 Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner weyghtes, a greate and a small:

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 Yf when men stryue together, one with another, the wife of the one rune to, for to ryd hyr husbonde out of the handes of him that smyteth him and put forth hir hande and take him by the secrettes:
12 cutt of hir hande, and let not thine eye pitie her.
13 Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner weyghtes, a greate and a small:
14 nether shalt thou haue in thine house dyuerse measures, a great ad a small.
15 But thou shalt haue a perfect ad a iust measure: that thy dayes maye be lengthed in the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the,
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