Divers weights, great and small The great to buy with, the small for selling. This law taught them to be so far from practising deceit, that they were not even to have the instruments of it by them. Would to God that there was no need to enforce the same law in our days!
Verse Deuteronomy 25:13. _DIVERS WEIGHTS_] אבן ואבן _eben vaaben_, a _stone and_ _a stone_, because the weights were anciently made of stone, and some had two sets of stones, a _light_ and a _heavy_....
Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Leviticus 19:35). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching...
21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deu
DEUTERONOMY 25:1. Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, _Ancient Egyptians_, i. pp. 305, 308). The p...
DIVERS WEIGHTS. Hebrew. stone and. stone. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for any weight. App-6....
Against Divers Weights and Measures Israel shall not use these greater (for purchases) and smaller (for sales) for he who does so is an abomination to Jehovah (Deuteronomy 25:13 f., Deuteronomy 25:16...
_divers weights_ Lit. _stone and stone_. Most ancient weights discovered in Palestine are of stone; for specimens see _PEFQ_, 1892, 114; 1894, 215 ff. Royal standards were fixed for them as early as...
_VER._ 13. _THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THY BAG DIVERS WEIGHTS_— In the margin of our Bibles, _a stone and a stone:_ so, _a heart and a heart,_ meaneth a double and deceitful heart; 1 Chronicles 12:33. The...
(20) JUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (Deuteronomy 25:13-16) 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small....
_THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THY BAG DIVERS WEIGHTS, A GREAT AND A SMALL._ Thou shalt not have ... divers weights, х_ 'EBEN_ (H68) _ WAA'AABEN_ (H68)] - 'a stone and a stone' [Septuagint, stathmion kai st...
25:13 weights, (d-9) Lit. 'a stone and a stone.'...
ORDINANCES REGARDING THE INFLICTION OF STRIPES, THE BAISING OF SEED TO A BROTHER, MODESTY, AND FAIR DEALING 3. _And_ NOT EXCEED] In order to keep within the limit it was usual to inflict thirty-nine s...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 V1 ‘Perhaps two men have an argument and they go to court. The judges declare that one man i...
Deuteronomy 25:13. JUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. So Leviticus 19:35. Among the laws of moral holiness comes the law of just weights and measures. (16) AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD. — So in Proverbs 1
לֹֽא ־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ בְּ כִֽיסְךָ֖ אֶ֣בֶן וָ
This chapter is a continuation of the two previous ones in giving varied instructions. Punishments were to be righteously administered and were never to be excessive. It is interesting to notice what...
It were much to be wished that these precepts were kept in view by all persons concerned in trade....
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THY BAG DIVERS WEIGHTS,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" y; it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still...
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Ver. 13. _Divers weights, a great and a small._] As they have that weigh not out a whole seventh day to God, who hath given men six...
1 Stripes must not exceed fortie. 4 The Oxe is not to be musled. 5 Of raising seed vnto a brother. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of vniust weights. 17 The memorie of Amalek is to be blotted out....
Thou shalt not have in thy bag, usually a large leather sack or purse, DIVERS WEIGHTS, A GREAT AND A SMALL, a set of large stones for purchases, a set of small ones for sales. This could be done both...
CORRECT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES...
JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY (vs.1-3) In the law courts the judges must mete out proper justice, yet not to exceed the limits of justice. If one was guilty of serious crime, it was right to have him b...
DIVERS WEIGHTS: _ Heb._ a stone and a stone...
13-16 Dishonest gain always brings a curse on men's property, families, and souls. Happy those who judge themselves, repent of and forsake their sins, and put away evil things, that they may not be co...
The GREAT, either to buy with, or openly to make show of; the SMALL, for their private use in selling....
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 25:13 bag H3599 differing H68 weights H68 heavy H1419 light H6996 in thy bag - Leviticus 19:35-36
REGULATIONS CONCERNING FAIR TREATMENT TO ANOTHER PARTY (DEUTERONOMY 25:4). The principle in these regulations is that of fair and just treatment towards other parties. The ox who treads out the grain...
CONTENTS: Divers regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justice and equity will bring down upon us the blessing of God. Those who do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord and misera...
Deuteronomy 25:5. _If brethren dwell together._ Not in the same house, but near each other on the ancient lot of land which the family possessed; for Moses often speaks as though the people were alrea...
JUST WEIGHTS Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Deuteronomy 25:13. The work of exploring the ancient cities of Palestine or Babylon is most interesting. There may be...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 25:13 TWO KINDS OF WEIGHTS... TWO KINDS OF MEASURES. A dishonest person might use one set of weights or measures for selling and another for buying. See...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 25:1__ The laws in this section relate to things like administering justice, providing for widows, and being honest in business. They relate to the ninth commandment: “...
CRITICAL NOTES.—CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. _Controv._, dispute arising from inflicted injury. Justify pronounce just, Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15. DEUTERONOMY 25:2. LIE DOWN. “Precisely the same as the Egyp...
EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one se
Now in Chapter twenty-five, he continues these interesting kinds of regulations. If two men have a controversy between themselves, then they come to the judges; and let the judges justify the righteou...
Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10; Ezekiel 45:11; Leviticus 19:35; Leviticus
A great and a small — The great to buy with, the small for selling....