Proverbs 20:10 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁰ Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Divers weights, and divers measures, Both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Diverse weights [one for buying and another for selling] and diverse measures–both of them are exceedingly offensive and abhorrent to the Lord. [Deut. 25:13; Mic. 6:10, 11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ False weights and measures— the LORD detests them both.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.

Proverbs 20:10 Cross References

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 16:11

A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:23

Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Leviticus 19:35

“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Leviticus 19:36

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”