New English Translation
Ezekiel 45:10
10You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).
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
8of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord. You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath). 11The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure. 12The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
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 19:35You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
- Proverbs 11:1The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
- Proverbs 20:10Diverse weights and diverse measures – the Lord abhors both of them.
- Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
- Micah 6:10“I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.
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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