Proverbs 20:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are' an abomination to Jehovah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good.
  • Amos 8:4-7 : 4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell. 7 Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? 11 Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
  • Prov 16:11 : 11 A just beam and balances `are' Jehovah's, His work `are' all the stones of the bag.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
  • Deut 25:13-15 : 13 `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. 14 Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small. 15 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;
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken `it' to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it `is'; 26 and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it `is' devoted.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:23-24
    2 verses
    90%

    23An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good.

    24From Jehovah `are' the steps of a man, And man -- how understandeth he his way?

  • Prov 11:1
    85%

    1Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.

  • Prov 16:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10An oath `is' on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.

    11A just beam and balances `are' Jehovah's, His work `are' all the stones of the bag.

    12An abomination to kings `is' doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.

  • Deut 25:13-16
    4 verses
    80%

    13`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

    14Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

    15Thou 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;

    16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

  • Lev 19:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    35`Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

    36righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I `am' Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

  • Mic 6:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

    11Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

  • Prov 20:11
    75%

    11Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

  • Prov 17:15
    74%

    15Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these `are' an abomination to Jehovah.

  • Prov 11:20
    74%

    20An abomination to Jehovah `are' the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way `are' His delight.

  • Ezek 45:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.

    11The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement.

  • Prov 29:27
    72%

    27An abomination to the righteous `is' the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked `is' the upright in the way!

  • Prov 16:2
    72%

    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

  • Prov 6:16
    71%

    16These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul.

  • Prov 20:9
    71%

    9Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

  • Prov 21:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Every way of a man `is' right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

    3To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

  • Zech 5:8
    70%

    8And he saith, `This `is' the wicked woman.' And he casteth her unto the midst of the ephah, and casteth the weight of lead on its mouth.

  • Hag 2:16
    70%

    16From that time `one' hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.

  • Prov 15:9
    69%

    9An abomination to Jehovah `is' the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.

  • Zech 8:17
    69%

    17And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these `are' things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

  • Isa 5:20
    69%

    20Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

  • Deut 18:12
    69%

    12`For the abomination of Jehovah `is' every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

  • Mal 2:17
    68%

    17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

  • Job 28:25
    68%

    25To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

  • Prov 16:5
    68%

    5An abomination to Jehovah `is' every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

  • Job 31:6
    68%

    6He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

  • Prov 15:26
    68%

    26An abomination to Jehovah `are' thoughts of wickedness, And pure `are' sayings of pleasantness.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
    68%

    3Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

  • Prov 8:13
    68%

    13The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

  • Lev 18:27
    68%

    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who `are' before you, and the land is defiled),

  • Prov 12:22
    68%

    22An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

  • Ezek 20:7
    67%

    7And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Jer 17:10
    67%

    10I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

  • Isa 10:1
    67%

    1Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

  • Prov 21:27
    67%

    27The sacrifice of the wicked `is' abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.

  • Deut 7:26
    67%

    26and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it `is' devoted.

  • Ezek 11:21
    67%

    21As to those whose heart is going unto the heart Of their detestable and their abominable things, Their way on their head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

  • Prov 21:8
    67%

    8Froward `is' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is' his work.

  • Deut 17:1
    67%

    1`Thou dost not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God ox or sheep in which there is a blemish -- any evil thing; for it `is' the abomination of Jehovah thy God.

  • Lev 18:30
    67%

    30and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do `any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I `am' Jehovah your God.'

  • 1 Kgs 7:37
    67%

    37Thus he hath made the ten bases; one casting, one measure, one form, have they all.