A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Deuteronomy 25:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not have in your bag true and false weights, a large and a small. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. Common English Bible Don’t have two different types of money weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less. |
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,
You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.