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Deu 25:13 — Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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in thy bag   Lev 19:35,36; Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10; Eze 45:10,11; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:11,12
divers weights   Heb. a stone and a stone. Aivenwäaiven; 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.
Correlating Passages
in thy bag
Lev 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Lev 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Pro 11:1 A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
Pro 16:11 A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
Pro 20:10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
Eze 45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Eze 45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Amo 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Mic 6:11 Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Mic 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

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Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 25:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Deu/25/13.html>.

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