Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
New American Standard Bible
You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
You must have honest weights and measuring devices, so you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you,
A Conservative Version
A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
You shall have a perfect (full) and just weight, and a perfect and just measure, so that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Bible in Basic English
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Darby Translation
A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Julia Smith Translation
A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just
King James 2000
But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.
Modern King James verseion
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
NET Bible
You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
New Heart English Bible
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
The Emphasized Bible
A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » To be done » In buying and selling
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Interlinear
Tsedeq
צדק
Tsedeq
righteousness, just, justice, righteous, righteously, right, righteous cause, unrighteousness,
Usage: 118
'eben
Yowm
'elohiym
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 25:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
14
You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.
15 You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
16
For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
Deuteronomy 5:16
Deuteronomy 5:33
Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.
Deuteronomy 6:18
Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land
Deuteronomy 11:9
and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 17:20
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years
Psalm 34:12
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
Ephesians 6:3
so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.
1 Peter 3:10
and to see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit,