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.
KJV
Statera justa, et æqua sint pondera, justus modius, æquusque sextarius. Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de terra Ægypti.
Vulgate
ζυγὰ δίκαια καὶ στάθμια δίκαια καὶ χοῦς δίκαιος ἔσται ὑμῖν· ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν ὁ ἐξαγαγὼν ὑμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.
LXX
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.
ASV
מֹ֧אזְנֵי צֶ֣דֶק אַבְנֵי צֶ֗דֶק אֵ֥יפַת צֶ֛דֶק וְ/הִ֥ין צֶ֖דֶק יִהְיֶ֣ה לָ/כֶ֑ם אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵי/כֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר הוֹצֵ֥אתִי אֶתְ/כֶ֖ם מֵ/אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם
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.
Cross-references
- Amos 8:5 — 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?
- Deut 25:13 — Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- Exod 20:2 — I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Exod 20:2 — I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Mic 6:11 — Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Prov 11:1 — A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Prov 20:10 — Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.