Deuteronomy 25:13

13 Don't carry two sets of weights with you, one heavy and one light.

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 If two men are fighting and one man's wife comes to save her husband from his attacker, grabbing the attacker by his sex organs,
12 you must cut off her hand. Show her no mercy.
13 Don't carry two sets of weights with you, one heavy and one light.
14 Don't have two different sets of measures in your house, one large and one small.
15 You must have true and honest weights and measures so that you will live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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