◄ Leviticus 19:36 ►
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Good News Translation
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the LORD your God, and I brought you out of Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

New American Bible
You shall have a true scale and true weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Just balances

Proverbs 11:1 Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

weights [heb] stones

Exodus 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Context
Keep My Decrees
…35Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure. 36Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.37Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:37
Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

1 Chronicles 23:29
And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.

Proverbs 11:1
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.

Ezekiel 45:10
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.

Micah 6:11
Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

Zechariah 5:6
And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.

Leviticus 19:35
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