Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 25:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you shall have a perfect and just weight and a perfect and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. American Standard Version (1901) A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. Common English Bible Instead, you must have only one weight, complete and correct, and only one ephah, also complete and correct, so that your life might be long in the fertile land the LORD your God is giving you. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt have a just and a true weight: and thy bushel shall be equal and true. That thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee. |
Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
‘You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure. ,
asking, ‘When will the New Moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.
so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land. ,,
and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue reigning many years in Israel.
Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.
Keep his statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.’
Honour your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.
Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your ancestors,
For the one who wants to love life and to see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,