Honest Weights and Measures

13 “You must not have two different weights[a] in your bag, one heavy and one light.(A) 14 You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller. 15 You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:13 Lit have a stone and a stone

11 Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag[a] are His concern.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:11 Merchants kept the stones for their scales in a bag.

10 “You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[a] and an honest liquid measure.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 Lit and an honest bath

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