Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
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.
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 in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one. 15 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. 16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Cross References
Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 5:33
Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.
Deuteronomy 6:18
Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
Deuteronomy 11:9
and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 17:20
Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.
Psalm 34:12
Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?
Ephesians 6:3
"that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth."
1 Peter 3:10
For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.