Deuteronomy 25:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ בְּכִֽיסְךָ֖ אֶ֣בֶן וָאָ֑בֶן גְּדוֹלָ֖ה וּקְטַנָּֽה׃

Transliteration

Not yihyeh to-you in-kîsəkā ʾeben wā-ʾāben gədôlāh û-qəṭannāh

Grammar Details

*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - there shall be
*ləkā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
*bə-kîsəkā*: preposition + noun masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - in your bag
*ʾeben*: noun feminine singular - stone/weight
*wā-ʾāben*: conjunction + noun feminine singular - and stone/weight
*gədôlāh*: adjective feminine singular - large
*û-qəṭannāh*: conjunction + adjective feminine singular - and small

Word Meanings

*kîs*: bag/pouch/purse
*ʾeben wā-ʾāben*: stone and stone/different weights/diverse weights

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Prov 16:11 : 11 A just weight and balance 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, 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?
Lev 19:35-37 : 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 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. 37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Mic 6:11-12 : 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 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.
Prov 20:10 : 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ezek 45:10-11 : 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 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.

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