Deuteronomy 25:14

14 There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}.

Deuteronomy 25:14 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 25:14

Thou shall not have in thine house divers, measures
Or, "an ephah and an ephah"; which was one sort of measure in use with the Jews, and held above a bushel; and is put for all others, which should be alike, and not

a great and a small;
one to buy with, and another to sell by, as before observed; which would be to cheat both seller and buyer in their turns; see ( Amos 8:5 ) .

Deuteronomy 25:14 In-Context

12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.

13 "There shall not be {for your use} in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.

14 There shall not be in your house {for your use} {two kinds of measures}.

15 [Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.

16 For detestable to Yahweh your God [is] everyone who [is] doing such things, everyone who [is] acting dishonestly.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "for you"
• [b] Literally "ephah and ephah large and small"