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Leviticus 19:35
35They must be fair when they measure length or weight or size.
Leviticus 19:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.
Context of Leviticus 19:35
33A foreign person may live in your land. You must be kind to him or to her. 34People must love the person from a different country as they love themselves. They must remember the time when they lived in Egypt. Egypt was not their country. I am the Lord your God. They must be fair when they measure length or weight or size. 36They must use correct weights and measures. I am the Lord your God. I led you out of Egypt. 37They must obey all my rules. I am the Lord.’
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:35 word by word
לֹא־תַעֲשׂ֥וּ עָ֖וֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּמִּדָּ֕ה בַּמִּשְׁקָ֖ל וּבַמְּשׂוּרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 19:35
- Leviticus 19:15You must be fair to other people when you judge them. You must not be more kind to a rich person than to a poor person. You must be fair to everyone.
- Deuteronomy 25:13Do not try to cheat people when you weigh or measure things. Do not carry with you two different stone weights, one light one and one heavy one.
- Proverbs 11:1The Lord hates traders who do not use true weights. He is happy when they are honest and they use true weights.
- Proverbs 16:11The Lord wants people to use true weights and measures. He knows all the weights that a trader uses.
- Proverbs 20:10If people use false weights and measures, the Lord hates anything like that.
- Ezekiel 22:12People among you accept bribes to kill somebody. When some of you lend money to people, you make them pay more money back to you. Some of you use your power to make people give you money. You people of Jerusalem have forgotten me. That is what the Lord says.
- Amos 8:5You say to yourselves, ‘We want the new moon festival to finish so that we can sell food again. We want our Sabbath day of rest to finish so that we can sell grain.’ But when you sell things, you cheat the people who buy from you. You deceive them with false weights, and you make the price too high.
- Micah 6:1Now listen to what the Lord says: ‘Stand up! Explain in front of the mountains what I want to say. Speak loud so that the hills can hear your voice.
- Matthew 7:2God will think about you in the same way that you think about other people. He will use the same rules for you as you use for other people.
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness - Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in the four following, which properly understood, comprise all that can occur between a man and his fellow. Judgment in all cases that come before the civil magistrate; he is to judge and decide according to the law. Mete-Yard, במדה bammiddah, in measures of length and surface, such as the reed, cubit, foot, span, hand's breadth, among the Jews…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Leviticus 14:10. Leviticus 19:36 I am the Lord your God - A full stop should precede these words. They…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35-36dishonest measures: Merchants sometimes used two sets of weights, one heavy and one light to cheat customers (Deuteronomy 25:13–15). The Bible clearly states that God detested this practice (Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:10, 23; Micah 6:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-372. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel--Many of the laws enumerated in this chapter had been previously announced. As they were, however, of a general application, not suited to particular classes, but to the nation at large, so Moses seems, according to divine instructions, to have rehearsed them, perhaps on different occasions and to successive divisions of the people, till "all the congregation of the children of Israel" were…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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