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Ezekiel 45:10
10You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath.
Ezekiel 45:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
Context of Ezekiel 45:10
8This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes. 9“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath. 11The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. 12The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.
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“ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.
- Proverbs 11:1The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.
- Proverbs 16:11Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making.
- Proverbs 20:10Differing weights and differing measures— the Lord detests them both.
- Proverbs 21:3To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
- Micah 6:10Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?
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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