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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bath;   Honesty;   King;   Measure;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Just Weights;   Measures;   Social Duties;   Virtues;   Weights;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Balances;   Economic Life;   Ephah;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Balances;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bath;   Prince;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bath;   Justice;   Weights and Measures;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius);   Poll-Tax;   Right and Righteousness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall have just balances, and a just efah, and a just bath.
King James Version
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
English Standard Version
"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
New American Standard Bible
"You shall have accurate balances, an accurate ephah, and an accurate bath.
New Century Version
You must have honest scales, an honest dry measurement and an honest liquid measurement.
Amplified Bible
"You shall have just balances and weights [on your scales and just measures], a just ephah [dry volume measure] and a just bath [liquid measure].
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall haue iust balances, and a true Ephah, and a true Bath.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.
Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Berean Standard Bible
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Contemporary English Version
So from now on, you must use honest weights and measures.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘You are to have honest balance-scales, an honest eifah [a one-bushel dry-measure] and an honest bat [a five-gallon liquid-measure].
Darby Translation
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Stop cheating people. Use accurate scales and measures!
George Lamsa Translation
You shall have just balances and just weights and just measures.
Good News Translation
"Everyone must use honest weights and measures:
Lexham English Bible
There shall be for you an honest set of scales and an honest ephah and an honest bath.
Literal Translation
Just balances and a just ephah, and a just bath, let there be to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal haue a true weight, a true Epha, & a true Bat.
American Standard Version
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Bible in Basic English
Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
King James Version (1611)
Ye shall haue iust ballances, and a iust Ephah, and a iust Bath.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall haue a true Ballaunce, a true Ephah, and a true Bath.
English Revised Version
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
World English Bible
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A iust balaunce, and a iust mesure clepid ephi, and a iust mesure clepid bathus, schulen be to you.
Update Bible Version
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
New English Translation
You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).
New King James Version
"You shall have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
New Living Translation
Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.
New Life Bible
"Be honest in your weights.
New Revised Standard
You shall have honest balances, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Balances of righteousness, and an ephah of righteousness, and A bath of righteousness, have ye:
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.
Revised Standard Version
"You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Young's Literal Translation
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.

Contextual Overview

9 Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, ye princes of Israel: remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from my people, saith the Lord God. 10 Ye shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure. 11 And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the gomor shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the gomor shall be in fair proportion to the gomor. 12 And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 21:3, Amos 8:4-6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:13 - in thy bag 1 Samuel 10:25 - General Proverbs 20:23 - weights Isaiah 5:10 - one Amos 8:5 - making Luke 16:6 - measures

Cross-References

Genesis 45:2
And he uttered his voice with weeping; and all the Egyptians heard, and it was reported to the house of Pharao.
Genesis 45:3
And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled.
Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, It is a great thing for me if Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.
Exodus 8:22
and I will distinguish marvellously in that day the land of Gesem, on which my people dwell, in which the dog-fly shall not be: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord the God of all the earth.
Exodus 9:26
Only in the land of Gesem where the children of Israel were, the hail was not.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall have just balances,.... That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of the civil magistrate to look after:

and a just ephah, and a just bath; and not make the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit, as some did, Amos 8:5 the "ephah" was a measure for dry things, as wheat, barley, c. and the "bath" for liquid things, as wine oil, &c. as Jarchi and Kimchi observe see Leviticus 19:35.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A general exhortation to honesty, expressed by true weights and measures (marginal references). This fitly introduces the strict regulation of quantities in the prescribed offerings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 45:10. Ye shall have just balances — This appreciation of weights, measures, and money was intended to show them that they must not introduce those to which they had been accustomed in the captivity, but those which God had prescribed to their forefathers. See the notes on the parallel places.


 
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