Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You are to maintain just balances and reliable standards for weights, dry volumes, and liquid volumes. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
You shall have
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
You are to have honest balances,
A Conservative Version
Ye shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
You shall have just and accurate balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
Bible in Basic English
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
King James 2000
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I [am] Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Modern King James verseion
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But ye shall have true balances, true weights, a true ephah and a true hin. I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
NET Bible
You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
New Heart English Bible
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
The Emphasized Bible
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have, - I - Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
Webster
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
World English Bible
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Youngs Literal Translation
righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
Themes
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Commerce » Of the jews » Under strict laws
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » To be done » In buying and selling
the Law of moses » Taught the jews » Strict justice and impartiality
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Stones » Used » For weighing (margin)
Virtues » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Topics
Interlinear
Tsedeq
Tsedeq
'eben
'elohiym
Yatsa'
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 19:36
Verse Info
Context Readings
Purity, Honor, Respect, And Honesty
35 "You are not to act unjustly in deciding a case or when measuring weight and quantity. 36 You are to maintain just balances and reliable standards for weights, dry volumes, and liquid volumes. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 Observe all my statutes and all my ordinances in order to practice them. I am the LORD."
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 20:2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.
Proverbs 11:1
The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
Deuteronomy 25:13-15
"Don't have different weights in your bag one heavy and one light.
Proverbs 20:10
False weights and measures the LORD surely detests both of them.