Bible Strands
Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author addresses a general audience, inserting this commercial ethic between a warning against self-deceived claims of purity and a statement that youth character is revealed through consistent actions.
The words — אֶבֶן ('E.ven) means a physical weight, and אֵיפָה ('ei.Fah) denotes a dry measure used in trade.
The thread — This prohibition against commercial dishonesty runs through Leviticus 19:35, Proverbs 11:1, and Proverbs 20:23.
Why it lands — The text declares that dishonest scales and measures are detestable to God, demanding exactness in transactions and rejecting any attempt to legitimize ethical compromise through religious claims.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 11:1 Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
- Leviticus 19:35 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
- Deuteronomy 25:13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
- Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
- Micah 6:10 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.