Honesty in Common Dealing
Leviticus 19:35-36
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, or in measure.…


The idea running through this passage is manifestly that of an inward, solid, living truthfulness of mind, as opposed to all surface-virtue or sham, or to any mere keeping up of appearances or putting on of an outside for the avoiding of scandal or damage or disrepute. It is that of a heart entire and direct with itself: a heart without any doubleness or intricacy or prevarication; a heart that keeps itself clean of the dust and cobwebs that gather in the darkness of close designs, oblique arts, and snaky thoughts; and that rejoices to have its chambers all open, its passages clear, and full of light, and fresh and sweet with Heaven's own breath.

(Norman Hudson.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

WEB: "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.




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