Leviticus 19:36

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

36._I am the Lord your God. _In these first four passages he treats of the same points which we have observed in the preface to the Law; for he reasons partly from God’s authority, that the law should be reverently obeyed, because the Creator of heaven and earth justly claims supreme dominion; and, partly, he sets before them the blessing of redemption, that they may willingly submit themselves to His law, from whom they have obtained their safety. For, whenever God calls Himself Jehovah, it should suggest His majesty, before which all ought to be humbled; whilst redemption should of itself produce voluntary submission. At the beginning he repeats the same words which he had lately used; and thence exhorts them to observe His statutes and judgments, _i.e., _treasure them diligently in their minds. Afterwards he reminds them wherefore they ought attentively to observe the Law, viz, that t...

Verse Leviticus 19:36. _JUST BALANCES_] _Scales, steel-yard_, c. _Weights_, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. _Ephah, hin_, c., see before....

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

JUST BALANCES, JUST WEIGHTS,.... Which were for such sort of things as were bought and sold by weight, and these were to be according to the custom and usage which universally obtained among them, or were fixed and settled by them; they were to be neither lighter nor heavier; they were not to have one sort to buy with, and another to sell with, which was not just, and was an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 11:1; for "weights", it is in the original text "stones", for those were formerly used in weighing, and were with us: hence it is still in use to say, so much by the stone. And according to Maimonides w, the Jews were not to make their weights neither of iron, nor of lead, nor of the rest of metals, lest they should rust and become light, but of polished rock, and the like; A JUST EPHAH, AND A JUST HIN, SHALL YE HAVE; the first of these was the measure of things dry,

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

JUST BALANCES. Hebrew balances of justice. Genitive of character. So with the other measures in this verse. Compare Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Proverbs 20:23....

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....