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.
KJV
Pondus habebis justum et verum, et modius æqualis et verus erit tibi : ut multo vivas tempore super terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
Vulgate
στάθμιον ἀληθινὸν καὶ δίκαιον ἔσται σοι, ἵνα πολυήμερος γένῃ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἧς Κύριος ὁ θεός σου δίδωσίν σοι ἐν κλήρῳ.
LXX
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.
ASV
אֶ֣בֶן שְׁלֵמָ֤ה וָ/צֶ֨דֶק֙ יִֽהְיֶה לָּ֔/ךְ אֵיפָ֧ה שְׁלֵמָ֛ה וָ/צֶ֖דֶק יִֽהְיֶה לָּ֑/ךְ לְמַ֨עַן֙ יַאֲרִ֣יכוּ יָמֶ֔י/ךָ עַ֚ל הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖י/ךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽ/ךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2409Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others is against the seventh commandment: thus, deliberate retention of goods lent or of objects lost; business fraud; paying unjust wages; forcing up prices by taking advantage of the ignorance or hardship of another.191 The following are also morally illicit: s…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:14 — And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
- Deut 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
- Exod 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Exod 20:12 — Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Ezek 45:10 — Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Lev 19:35 — Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.