Leviticus 19:35

_YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT, IN METEYARD, IN WEIGHT, OR IN MEASURE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Leviticus 19:35_Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment_. If you take the word judgment in its strict sense, this will be a special precept, that judges should faithfully do justice to all, and not subvert just causes from favor or ill-will. But since the word משפט, _mishpat_, often means rectitude, it will not be unsuitable to suppose that all iniquities contrary to integrity are generally condemned; and that he afterwards proceeds to particular cases, which he adverts to elsewhere, where he enumerates the most injurious thefts of all, and such as involve the grossest violation of public justice. For the corruption which tends to the subversion of judgments, or, by undermining rectitude, vitiates all contracts, leaves nothing in security; whilst deception in weights and measures destroys and sweeps away all legitimate modes of dealing. Now, if the laws of buying and selling

Verse Leviticus 19:35. _YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS_] Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in the _four_ following, which properly understood, comprise all that can occur between a man and his fellow. 1. JUDGMENT in all cases that come before the civil magistrate; he is to judge and decide according to the _law_. 2. METE-YARD, במדה _bammiddah_, in measures of _length_ and _surface_, such as the _reed, cubit, foot_, _span, hand's breadth_, among the _Jews_; or _ell, yard, foot_, and _inch_, among us. 3. WEIGHT, במשכל _bammishkal_, in any thing that is _weighed_, the weights being all according to the _standards_ kept for the purpose of trying the rest in the sanctuary, as appears from...

The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Leviticus 14:10. Leviticus 19:36 I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD ... - A full stop should precede these words. They intraduce the formal conclusion to the whole string of precepts in this chapter, which are all enforced upon the ground of the election of the nation by Yahweh who had delivered them from the

EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of immorality, inculcating piety, righteousness, and kindness. Leviticus 19:1 may be regarded as an extension of the previous chapter in this direction, after which the subject of Leviticus 18:1, is again taken up in Leviticus 20:1. The precepts now given are not arranged systematically, though, as Keil has remarked, "while_ _grouped together rather according to a loose association of ideas than according to any logical arrangement, they are all linked together by the common purpose expressed in th

YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT,.... This is repeated from Leviticus 19:15; and in order to lead on to some other laws and instructions; though Aben Ezra thinks this is said in connection with the preceding words, and in reference to the stranger, agreeably to Deuteronomy 1:16; but Jarchi refers it to what follows concerning weights and measures, and observes, that a measurer is a judge; and if he acts deceitfully, he perverts judgment, and does that which is detestable and abominable, and is the cause of the five following things said of a judge; he defiles the land, and profanes the name of God, and causes the Shechinah or divine Majesty to remove, or causes Israel to fall by the sword, or carries them captive out of their land: in meteyard, in weight, or in measure

2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4. Against oppression (Leviticus 19:13) 5. Against unrighteousness in judgment (Leviticus 19:15) 6. Thou shalt love thy neighbor (Leviticus 19:17) 7. Different commands and prohibitions ...

FINAL RULES OF HUMANITY AND JUSTICE. Resident aliens are to be respected; fraud is to be banished. For the stranger, _cf. Leviticus 17:8_ f.*. Straightforward dealing is here placed in a position of special importance. It is uniformly emphasized by the prophets (Amos 5:24; Micah 6:8; Ezekiel 45:9 ff.). In early stages of society, untested and unstandardised weights and measures make dishonesty easy. The weights unearthed in the soil of Palestine (_e.g._ at Gezer) make no pretence to exactness. The isolated fragment in Numbers 15:37 * (provision of fringe

METEYARD. measures of length or dimension. WEIGHT. measures of weight. MEASURE. measures of capacity....

Uprightness enjoined in judgement and in commercial dealings. Cp. Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Ezekiel 45:9 ff. _meteyard_ lit. (Anglo-Saxon _met-geard_) a measuring rod. For the word see _Taming of the Shrew_, iv. 3. 153. _ephah … hin_ The former was about a bushel, the latter about 1 1/2 gallons of our measure....