Devarim 25:13

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag differing weights, a gedolah and a ketannah.

Devarim 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.

Devarim 25:13 In-Context

11 When anashim strive together one with another, and the eshet (wife) of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that striketh him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the private parts,

12 Then thou shalt cut off her kaf (palm, hollow or flat of the hand), thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag differing weights, a gedolah and a ketannah.

14 Thou shalt not have in thine bais differing eifah (measures), a gedolah and a ketannah.

15 But thou shalt have a shleimah and tzedek weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy yamim may be lengthened in ha’adamah which Hashem Eloheicha giveth thee.