申命记 25:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“你袋裡不可有兩樣不同的法碼，一大一小；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 囊 中 不 可 有 一 大 一 小 两 样 的 法 码 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ Don't carry two sets of weights with you, one heavy and one light. ¹⁴ Don't have two different sets of measures in your house, one large and one small. ¹⁵ You must have true and honest weights and measures so that you will live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶ The Lord your God hates anyone who is dishonest and uses dishonest measures. ¹⁷ Remember what the Amalekites did to you when you came out of Egypt. ¹⁸ When you were tired and worn out, they met you on the road and attacked all those lagging behind. They were not afraid of God. ¹⁹ When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you as your own, you shall destroy any memory of the Amalekites on the earth. Do not forget!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in thy bag: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Proverbs 20:10, Ezekiel 45:10, Ezekiel 45:11, Amos 8:5, Micah 6:11, Micah 6:12

divers weights: Heb. a stone and a stone, Aivenwaaiven; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shews us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Leviticus 19:15 - General Deuteronomy 16:20 - That which Micah 6:10 - and 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 25:16
These were Ishmael's sons, and these are the names of the tribal leaders listed according to their settlements and camps.

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived one hundred thirty-seven years and then breathed his last breath and died.

Genesis 25:29
One day Jacob was boiling a pot of vegetable soup. Esau came in from hunting in the fields, weak from hunger.

Genesis 25:31
But Jacob said, "You must sell me your rights as the firstborn son."

Genesis 36:3
and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

Psalms 120:5
How terrible it is for me to live in the land of Meshech, to live among the people of Kedar.

Song of Solomon 1:5
I'm dark but lovely, women of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Isaiah 42:11
The deserts and their cities should praise him. The settlements of Kedar should praise him. The people living in Sela should sing for joy; they should shout from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 60:7
All the sheep from Kedar will be given to you; the sheep from Nebaioth will be brought to you. They will be pleasing sacrifices on my altar, and I will make my beautiful Temple more beautiful.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Leviticus 19:35-36). 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 45:10-12; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10-11) and “the Psalms” Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23, not less than “the Law,” especially insist on them.

Deuteronomy 25:13

Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with. Stones were used by the Jews instead of brass or lead for their weights, as less liable to lose anything through rust or wear.

Deuteronomy 25:17-19

It was not after the spirit or mission of the Law to aim at overcoming inveterate opposition by love and by attempts at conversion (contrast Luke 9:55-56). The law taught God’s hatred of sin and of rebellion against Him by enjoining the extinction of the obstinate sinner. The Amalekites were a kindred people Genesis 36:15-16; and living as they did in the peninsula of Sinai, they could not but have well known the mighty acts God had done for His people in Egypt and the Red Sea; yet they manifested from the first a persistent hostility to Israel (compare Exodus 17:8, and note; Numbers 14:45). They provoked therefore the sentence here pronounced, which was executed at last by Saul (1 Samuel 15:3 ff).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 Leviticus 19:35-36.