God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 45:10
10You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Ezekiel 45:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- New International Version (NIV)You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
Context of Ezekiel 45:10
8This land will belong to the prince in Israel. Then my princes will no longer oppress my people. They will give land to each tribe of the nation of Israel. 9“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’ve had enough of you, you princes of Israel. Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people, declares the Almighty Lord. You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures. 11The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure. 12One shekel must weigh 20 gerahs. One mina must weigh 60 shekels.
Read all of Ezekiel 45Ezekiel 45:10 word by word
מֹֽאזְנֵי־צֶ֧דֶק וְאֵֽיפַת־צֶ֛דֶק וּבַת־צֶ֖דֶק יְהִ֥י לָכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 45:10
- Leviticus 19:35“Don’t be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid.
- Proverbs 11:1Dishonest scales are disgusting to the Lord, but accurate weights are pleasing to him.
- Proverbs 16:11Honest balances and scales belong to the Lord. He made the entire set of weights.
- Proverbs 20:10A double standard of weights and measures— both are disgusting to the Lord.
- Proverbs 21:3Doing what is right and fair is more acceptable to the Lord than offering a sacrifice.
- Amos 8:4Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.
- Micah 6:10I have cursed all the wicked people who use their money for evil and use inaccurate weights and measures.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 45:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Ye shall have just balances - This appreciation of weights, measures, and money was intended to show them that they must not introduce those to which they had been accustomed in the captivity, but those which God had prescribed to their forefathers. See the notes on the parallel places.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10A general exhortation to honesty, expressed by true weights and measures (marginal references). This fitly introduces the strict regulation of quantities in the prescribed offerings.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-12When the prince collected the people's offerings for the temple (see Ezekiel 45:13–17), he should not alter the scales to gain from the difference between what he received and what he provided for the temple's ministry.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251. offer an oblation--from a Hebrew root to "heave" or "raise"; when anything was offered to God, the offerer raised the hand. The special territorial division for the tribes is given in the forty-seventh and forty-eighth chapters. Only Jehovah's portion is here subdivided into its three parts: (1) that for the sanctuary (Eze 45:2, 3); (2) that for the priests (Eze 45:4); (3) that for the Levites (Eze 45:5). Compare Eze 48:8-13. five and twenty thousand…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 45
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- 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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