Deuteronomy 25:15
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.
Deuteronomy 25:15 in other translations
| BSB | You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. |
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| WEB | 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 the LORD your God gives you. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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; |
| DARBY | A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Deuteronomy 25:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 25:13-16
13-16. Thou shalt not have ... divers weights--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 Pr 16:11; 20:10).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 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 put away evil things, that they may not be condemned of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 25:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 25:15
- Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:40
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Deuteronomy 5:33
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 11:9
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- Ephesians 6:3
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
- Psalms 34:12
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
- 1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
- Deuteronomy 6:18
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,
- Deuteronomy 5:16
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 25:14
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
- Deuteronomy 25:15
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.
- Deuteronomy 25:16
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 25:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pesas cumplidas y justas tendrás; epha cabal y justo tendrás: para que tus días sean prolongados sobre la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu auras un poids exact et juste, tu auras un épha exact et juste, afin que tes jours soient prolongés sur la terre que l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vollen und gerechten Gewichtstein sollst du haben, und volles und gerechtes Epha sollst du haben, auf daß deine Tage verlängert werden in dem Lande, welches Jehova, dein Gott, dir gibt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pondus habebis justum et verum, et modius æqualis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi. |