Deuteronomy 25:13

_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 stathmion]; a just and false, or a light and heavy one. Weights were anciently made of stone; and the facility for procuring stones apparently, though not exactly similar, gave much occasion to fraud (Leviticus 19:31; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Micah 6:11). BAG - the leather pouch in which the weights were k

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 condemned of the Lord....

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_. With the _latter_ they bought their wares, by the _former_ they sold them. In our own country this was once a common case; smooth, round, or oval stones were generally chosen by the simple country people for selling their wares, especially such as were sold in _pounds_ and _half_ pounds. And hence the term a _stone weight_, which is still in use, though _lead_ or _iron_ be the matter that is used as a counterpoise: but the name itself shows us that a _stone_ of a certain weight was the material formerly used as a weight. See the notes on...

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 (compare Luke 3:12 ff); and that “the prophets” (compare Ezekiel 45:10; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10) and “the Psalms” Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10,...

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 sentence, of which the protasis is in Deuteronomy 25:1 and the apodosis in Deuteronomy 25:2, thus: IF THERE BE A STRIFE BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME TO JUDGMENT, AND THEY (_i_._e_._ _the judges) give judgment on them, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked, then

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 say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different: A GREAT AND A SMALL; great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it. y אבן ואבן "lapis et lapis", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator....

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 (Deuteronomy 25:5) 4. Concerning a sinful freedom (Deuteronomy 25:11) 5. Concerning divers weights and measures (Deuteronomy 25:13) 6. Concerning the conquest of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:17

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 present writer saw it in Egypt in 1888; see Exodus 21:20 (showing that a slave was sometimes beaten to death), Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 19:29. Deuteronomy 25:3. The forty stripes became thirty- nine (2 Corinthians 11:24) i

DIVERS WEIGHTS. Hebrew. stone and. stone. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for any weight. App-6....

_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 David's time (2 Samuel 14:26). With this and the next _v_. cp. H, Leviticus 19:35: _Thou shalt do no wrong_(_-awel) in judgement or with rule, stone, or measure_....