New King James Version
Ezekiel 45:10
10“You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest 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 Living Translation (NLT)Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
Context of Ezekiel 45:10
8The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.” 9‘Thus says the Lord God: “Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord God. “You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer. 12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your 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‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.
- Proverbs 11:1Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, But a just weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 16:11Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s; All the weights in the bag are His work.
- Proverbs 20:10Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
- Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,
- Micah 6:10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?
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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