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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall have just balances,.... That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of…
Barnes' Notes
A general exhortation to honesty, expressed by true weights and measures (marginal references). This fitly introduces the strict regulation of quantities in the prescribed offerings.
Adam Clarke
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…
We have here some general rules of justice laid down both for prince and people, the rules of distributive and commutative justice; for godliness without honesty is but a form of godliness, will…
Cambridge Bible
Cf. Lev 19:35-36; Deu 25:13-15; Mic 6:10-11 (the accursed scanty ephah); Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10. From this it appears that the words of Amo 8:5 "making the ephah small and the shekel large"…
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