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Deuteronomy 25:13

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¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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  1. Proverbs 11:1Rank 1 from verse 13
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    1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

  2. Amos 8:5Rank 2 from verse 13
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    5Saying, 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?

  3. Leviticus 19:35–37Rank 3 from verse 13
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    35¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

    36Just 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.

    37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

  4. Proverbs 16:11Rank 4 from verse 13
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    11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  5. Ezekiel 45:10–11Rank 5 from verse 13
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    10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

    11The 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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Deuteronomy 25:13

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

bag

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A flexible container or pouch used to carry or hold something.

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weights

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Sense 1: Measures or objects used to determine heaviness. Sense 2: The standards by which things are weighed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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small

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1. Little or limited in size, amount, number, extent, strength, power, rank, or importance. 2. Fine or minute; broken or ground into small particles. 3. In “no small,” considerable or great. 4. In “small cattle,” sheep and goats, as distinguished from oxen or larger cattle.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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12Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

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

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14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

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