Ezekiel 45 · Verse 10

Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel 45:10, King James Version

Ezekiel 45:10 in other translations

BSBYou must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
WEB“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
ASVYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
YLTJust balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath--ye have.
DARBYYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
BBEHave true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
WebsterYe shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

What does Ezekiel 45:10 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Ye shall have just balances - This appreciation of weights, measures, and money was intended to show them that they must not introduce those to which they had been accustomed in the captivity, but those which God had prescribed to their forefathers. See the notes on the parallel places.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 45:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מֹֽאזְנֵי\־mo.ze.nei-balances ofH3976
צֶ֧דֶקTze.dekrighteousnessH6664
וְאֵֽיפַת\־ve.'ei.fat-and an ephah ofH374
צֶ֛דֶקTze.dekrighteousnessH6664
וּבַת\־u.vat-and a bath ofH1324
צֶ֖דֶקTze.dekrighteousnessH6664
יְהִ֥יye.Hilet it beH1961
לָכֶֽם\׃la.Khemto you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 45:10

  • Amos 8:4-6

    Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 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? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • Micah 6:10-11

    Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

  • Leviticus 19:35-36

    Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 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.

  • Proverbs 20:10

    Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

  • Proverbs 11:1

    A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

  • 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.

  • Proverbs 21:3

    To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

  • Proverbs 16:11

    A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

  • Isaiah 5:10

    Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 19:35,36; Pr 11:1; 16:11; 20:10; 21:3; Am 8:4-6; Mic 6:10,11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 45:9

    Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.

  • Ezekiel 45:10

    Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

  • Ezekiel 45:11

    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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Ezekiel 45:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Peso de justicia, y epha de justicia, y bato de justicia, tendréis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ayez des balances justes, et un épha juste, et un bath juste.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Gerechte Waage und gerechtes Epha und gerechtes Bath sollt ihr haben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Statera justa, et ephi justum, et batus justus erit vobis.