Deuteronomy 25:13

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Deuteronomy 25:13 In-Context

11 When men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him and puts forth her hand and takes him by his secret parts;

12 then thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.

14 Thou shalt not have in thy house different measures, a great and a small.

15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee.