Deuteronomy 25:15

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    A perfect{H8003} and just{H6664} weight{H68} shalt thou have; a perfect{H8003} and just{H6664} measure{H374} shalt thou have: that thy days{H3117} may be long{H748} in the land{H127} which Jehovah{H3068} thy God{H430} giveth{H5414} thee.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But thou shalt have a perfect{H8003} and just{H6664} weight{H68}, a perfect{H8003} and just{H6664} measure{H374} shalt thou have: that thy days{H3117} may be lengthened{H748}{(H8686)} in the land{H127} which the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430} giveth{H5414}{(H8802)} thee.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But thou shalt haue a perfect ad a iust measure: that thy dayes maye be lengthed in the londe whiche the Lorde thy God geueth the,

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thou shalt haue a perfecte and iust weighte, and a perfecte and iust measure, that thy life maye be longe in the londe, which the LORDE yi God shal geue the.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But thou shalt haue a right & iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But thou shalt haue a right and iust waight, and a perfect and a iust measure shalt thou haue: that thy dayes may be lengthed in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the LORD your God is about to give you.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Deut 5:33 : 33 Walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land you will possess.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.
  • Deut 11:9 : 9 And so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Deut 17:20 : 20 In this way, his heart will not become proud above his fellow Israelites, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left. He and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
  • Ps 34:12 : 12 Come, my children, and listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
  • Eph 6:3 : 3 so that it may go well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For the one who wants to love life and to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 25:13-14
    2 verses
    86%

    13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one.

    14 Do not have two differing measures in your house, a large one and a small one.

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    82%

    35 Do not use dishonest measures in judgment, whether in length, weight, or quantity.

    36 Use honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 16:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18 Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

    19 Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

    20 Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 25:16
    78%

    16 For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

    11 The measurements for the ephah and the bath shall be the same: both will be one-tenth of a homer. The homer will be the standard measure.

  • Prov 11:1
    76%

    1 Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but a full and accurate weight is His delight.

  • Prov 16:11
    76%

    11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are His making.

  • Prov 20:10
    75%

    10 Differing weights and differing measures—both are detestable to the Lord.

  • Prov 20:23
    75%

    23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and deceitful scales are not good.

  • Deut 18:13
    74%

    13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, as well as His testimonies and statutes that He has commanded you.

    18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.

  • Deut 19:14
    72%

    14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

  • Deut 11:9
    72%

    9 And so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Lev 25:14-19
    6 verses
    71%

    14 If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

    15 You are to buy from your neighbor based on the number of years since the Jubilee, and they are to sell to you according to the number of harvest years.

    16 The more years there are, the higher you may increase the price, and the fewer years there are, the lower you shall reduce the price, because what they are really selling to you is the number of harvests.

    17 Do not take advantage of one another, but fear your God; I am the LORD your God.

    18 You are to follow my statutes and observe my ordinances and carry them out, so that you may live securely in the land.

    19 The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely upon it.

  • Deut 5:33
    71%

    33 Walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land you will possess.

  • Deut 12:25
    71%

    25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Lev 19:15
    71%

    15 Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

  • Deut 30:20
    71%

    20 loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice, and holding fast to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.

  • Deut 12:1
    71%

    1 These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess, for as long as you live on the earth.

  • Deut 4:40
    70%

    40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

  • Deut 30:16
    70%

    16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, so that you may live and multiply, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

  • Deut 11:21
    70%

    21 so that your days and the days of your children may be prolonged in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

  • Deut 15:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 However, there should be no poor among you, for the Lord will certainly bless you in the land He is giving you as an inheritance to possess.

    5 If only you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being diligent to observe all these commandments that I am commanding you today.

  • Mic 6:11
    70%

    11 Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

  • Lev 27:25
    70%

    25 Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, where twenty gerahs make a shekel.

  • Deut 14:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24 But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name is too far away, then when the LORD your God blesses you,

    25 you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.

  • Deut 4:2
    70%

    2 Do not add to the command that I am giving you, and do not take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you.

  • Deut 5:16
    69%

    16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 15:10
    69%

    10 You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you undertake.

  • Deut 13:18
    69%

    18 Do not let any of the things set apart for destruction cling to your hand, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase you, as He swore to your ancestors.

  • Deut 28:8
    69%

    8 The LORD will command the blessing on your storehouses and on all you set your hand to do. He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 8:10
    69%

    10 You will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God for the good land He has given you.

  • Exod 20:12
    69%

    12 Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Ezek 4:10
    69%

    10 The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day.

  • Lev 26:5
    69%

    5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

  • Deut 32:47
    69%

    47 They are not just empty words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

  • Deut 14:22
    69%

    22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.