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Ezekiel 45:10
10Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
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
8These sections of land will be the prince’s allotment. Then my princes will no longer oppress and rob my people; they will assign the rest of the land to the people, giving an allotment to each tribe. 9“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign Lord. Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid. 11The homer will be your standard unit for measuring volume. The ephah and the bath will each measure one-tenth of a homer. 12The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to 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 volume.
- Proverbs 11:1The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
- Proverbs 16:11The Lord demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the standards for fairness.
- Proverbs 20:10False weights and unequal measures— the Lord detests double standards of every kind.
- Proverbs 21:3The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.
- Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!
- Micah 6:10What shall I say about the homes of the wicked filled with treasures gained by cheating? What about the disgusting practice of measuring out grain with dishonest 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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