Leviticus 19:36
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.
Leviticus 19:36 in other translations
| BSB | You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
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| WEB | You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
| ASV | Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
| YLT | righteous 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; |
| DARBY | just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
| BBE | Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt; |
| Webster | Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
What does Leviticus 19:36 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Leviticus 19:36 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Leviticus 19:36
- Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
- Exodus 20:2
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 25:13-15
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 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.
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Context
- Leviticus 19:35
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 19:36
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.
- Leviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:36 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Balanzas justas, pesas justas, epha justo, é hin justo tendréis: Yo Jehová vuestro Dios, que os saqué de la tierra de Egipto. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous aurez des balances justes, des poids justes, l’épha juste, et le hin juste. Moi, je suis l’ Éternel, votre Dieu, qui vous ai fait sortir du pays d’Égypte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | gerechte Waage, gerechte Gewichtsteine, gerechtes Epha und gerechtes Hin sollt ihr haben. Ich bin Jehova, euer Gott, der ich euch aus dem Lande Ägypten herausgeführt habe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Statera justa, et æqua sint pondera, justus modius, æquusque sextarius. Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de terra Ægypti. |