Deuteronomy - 25:14

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14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 25:14.

Differing Translations

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Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.
Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.
Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.
Non erit tibi in domo tua modius et modius, major et minor.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Divers measures - Literally, an ephah and an ephah; one large, to buy thy neighbor's wares, another small, to sell thy own by. So there were knaves in all ages, and among all nations. See the notes on Exodus 16:16, and Leviticus 19:35 (note).

Thou shall not have in thine house divers, measures,.... Or, "an ephah and an ephah"; which was one sort of measure in use with the Jews, and held above a bushel; and is put for all others, which should be alike, and not
a great and a small; one to buy with, and another to sell by, as before observed; which would be to cheat both seller and buyer in their turns; see Amos 8:5.

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