Deuteronomy 25:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
  • Amos 8:5 : 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
  • Lev 19:35-37 : 35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures. 36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt; 37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
  • Mic 6:11-12 : 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
  • Ezek 45:10-11 : 10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath. 11 The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

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  • Deut 25:14-16
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    91%

    14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

    15 But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 20:23
    80%

    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Lev 19:35-36
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    80%

    35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

    36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

  • Prov 20:10
    79%

    10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

  • Prov 11:1
    76%

    1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

  • Deut 25:12
    76%

    12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

  • Prov 16:11
    75%

    11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

    11 The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Deut 22:9-11
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    72%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

    10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

    11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Exod 23:1-3
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    71%

    1 Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

    2 Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

    3 But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

  • Lev 19:11
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    11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

  • Exod 20:14-16
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    70%

    14 Do not be false to the married relation.

    15 Do not take the property of another.

    16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Deut 16:19-20
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    70%

    19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Lev 25:17
    70%

    17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Mic 2:5
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    5 For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

  • Deut 5:19-20
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    19 Do not take the property of another.

    20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

  • Lev 25:37
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    37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

  • Deut 19:14
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    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Dan 5:27
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    27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

  • Prov 1:14
    68%

    14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

  • Exod 22:25
    68%

    25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Exod 23:8
    68%

    8 Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

  • Deut 4:2
    67%

    2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

  • Lev 19:13
    67%

    13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

  • Lev 27:25
    67%

    25 And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

  • Zech 5:8
    67%

    8 And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

  • Deut 13:8
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    8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

  • Hos 12:7
    67%

    7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

  • Deut 19:21
    67%

    21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Prov 23:6
    67%

    6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

  • Lev 25:43
    67%

    43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

  • Amos 8:5
    67%

    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;