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Text -- Deuteronomy 25:13 (NET)

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25:13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Weights | TRADE | PURSE | Moses | Measure | JUSTICE | Honesty | Dishonesty | DIVERS; DIVERSE; DIVERSITIES | BALANCE | BAG | Abomination | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Deu 25:13 - -- The great to buy with, the small for selling.

The great to buy with, the small for selling.

JFB: Deu 25:13-16 - -- Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in th...

Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS]. (Compare Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10).

Clarke: Deu 25:13 - -- Divers weights - אבן ואבן eben vaaben , a stone and a stone, because the weights were anciently made of stone, and some had two sets of ston...

Divers weights - אבן ואבן eben vaaben , a stone and a stone, because the weights were anciently made of stone, and some had two sets of stones, a light and a heavy. With the latter they bought their wares, by the former they sold them. In our own country this was once a common case; smooth, round, or oval stones were generally chosen by the simple country people for selling their wares, especially such as were sold in pounds and half pounds. And hence the term a stone weight, which is still in use, though lead or iron be the matter that is used as a counterpoise: but the name itself shows us that a stone of a certain weight was the material formerly used as a weight. See the notes on Lev 19:35, Lev 19:36.

TSK: Deu 25:13 - -- in thy bag : Lev 19:35, Lev 19:36; Pro 11:1, Pro 16:11, Pro 20:10; Eze 45:10, Eze 45:11; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:11, Mic 6:12 divers weights : Heb. a stone and...

in thy bag : Lev 19:35, Lev 19:36; Pro 11:1, Pro 16:11, Pro 20:10; Eze 45:10, Eze 45:11; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:11, Mic 6:12

divers weights : Heb. a stone and a stone, Aivenwaaiven ; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shews us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Deu 25:13-19 - -- Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Lev 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts ...

Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Lev 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luk 3:12 ff); and that "the prophets"(compare Eze 45:10-12; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:10-11) and "the Psalms"Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10, Pro 20:23, not less than "the Law,"especially insist on them.

Deu 25:13

Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with. Stones were used by the Jews instead of brass or lead for their weights, as less liable to lose anything through rust or wear.

Deu 25:17-19

It was not after the spirit or mission of the Law to aim at overcoming inveterate opposition by love and by attempts at conversion (contrast Luk 9:55-56). The law taught God’ s hatred of sin and of rebellion against Him by enjoining the extinction of the obstinate sinner. The Amalekites were a kindred people Gen 36:15-16; and living as they did in the peninsula of Sinai, they could not but have well known the mighty acts God had done for His people in Egypt and the Red Sea; yet they manifested from the first a persistent hostility to Israel (compare Exo 17:8, and note; Num 14:45). They provoked therefore the sentence here pronounced, which was executed at last by Saul (1Sa 15:3 ff).

Poole: Deu 25:13 - -- The great either to buy with, or openly to make show of; the small for their private use in selling.

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great either to buy with, or openly to make show of; the

small for their private use in selling.

Gill: Deu 25:13 - -- Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" y; it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of...

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" y; it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different:

a great and a small; great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 25:13 Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Deu 25:1-19 - --1 Stripes must not exceed forty.4 The ox is not to be muzzled.5 Of raising seed unto a brother.11 Of the immodest woman.13 Of unjust weights and measu...

MHCC: Deu 25:13-16 - --Dishonest gain always brings a curse on men's property, families, and souls. Happy those who judge themselves, repent of and forsake their sins, and p...

Matthew Henry: Deu 25:13-19 - -- Here is, I. A law against deceitful weights and measures: they must not only not use them, but they must not have them, not have them in the bag, no...

Keil-Delitzsch: Deu 25:13-16 - -- The duty of integrity in trade is once more enforced in Deu 25:13-16 (as in Lev 19:35-36). "Stone and stone," i.e., two kinds of stones for weighing ...

Constable: Deu 5:1--26:19 - --IV. MOSES' SECOND MAJOR ADDRESS: AN EXPOSITION OF THE LAW chs. 5--26 ". . . Deuteronomy contains the most compre...

Constable: Deu 12:1--25:19 - --B. An exposition of selected covenant laws 12-25 Moses' homiletical exposition of the law of Israel that...

Constable: Deu 24:8--26:1 - --9. Laws arising from the ninth commandment 24:8-25:19 The ninth commandment is, "You shall not b...

Constable: Deu 25:5-19 - --10. Laws arising from the tenth commandment 25:5-19 The tenth commandment is, "You shall not cov...

Constable: Deu 25:13-16 - --Dishonest weights and measures 25:13-16 The Israelites were to use the same weights and ...

Guzik: Deu 25:1-19 - --Deuteronomy 25 - More Laws on Various Subjects A. Two laws to protect criminals and animals. 1. (1-3) A limit on corporal punishment. If there is ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the for...

JFB: Deuteronomy (Outline) MOSES' SPEECH AT THE END OF THE FORTIETH YEAR. (Deu. 1:1-46) THE STORY IS CONTINUED. (Deu. 2:1-37) CONQUEST OF OG, KING OF BASHAN. (Deu. 3:1-20) AN E...

TSK: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) The book of Deuteronomy marks the end of the Pentateuch, commonly called the Law of Moses; a work every way worthy of God its author, and only less th...

TSK: Deuteronomy 25 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Deu 25:1, Stripes must not exceed forty; Deu 25:4, The ox is not to be muzzled; Deu 25:5, Of raising seed unto a brother; Deu 25:11, Of t...

Poole: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) FIFTH BOOK of MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY THE ARGUMENT Moses, in the two last months of his life, rehearseth what God had done for them, and their ...

Poole: Deuteronomy 25 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 25 Judges must do justly, Deu 25:1,2 . Stripes not to exceed forty, Deu 25:3 . The threshing ox not to be muzzled, Deu 25:4 . The duty of r...

MHCC: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) This book repeats much of the history and of the laws contained in the three foregoing books: Moses delivered it to Israel a little before his death, ...

MHCC: Deuteronomy 25 (Chapter Introduction) (Deu 25:1-3) Extent of punishment. (Deu 25:4) The ox that treadeth the corn. (Deu 25:5-12) Marriage of a brother's wife. (Deu 25:13-16) Of unjust w...

Matthew Henry: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy This book is a repetition of very much both of the history ...

Matthew Henry: Deuteronomy 25 (Chapter Introduction) Here is, I. A law to moderate the scourging of malefactors (Deu 25:1-3). II. A law in favour of the ox the treads out the corn (Deu 25:4). III. ...

Constable: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible was its first two words,...

Constable: Deuteronomy (Outline) Outline I. Introduction: the covenant setting 1:1-5 II. Moses' first major address: a review...

Constable: Deuteronomy Deuteronomy Bibliography Adams, Jay. Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyt...

Haydock: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. This Book is called Deuteronomy, which signifies a second law , because it repeats and inculcates the ...

Gill: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY This book is sometimes called "Elleh hadebarim", from the words with which it begins; and sometimes by the Jews "Mishne...

Gill: Deuteronomy 25 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 25 Several laws are contained in this chapter, as concerning beating such whose crimes required it, Deu 25:1; of not mu...

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