John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 20:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Divers weights, [and] divers measures, etc.] Or, “a stone and a stone, and an ephah and an ephah”f558. Stones being in old time used in weighing, and an “ephah” was a common measure among the Jews; and these ought not to be different; one stone or weight for buying, and another for selling; and one measure to buy goods in with, and another to sell out with; the one too heavy, the other too light; the one too large, and the other too scanty; whereby justice is not done between man and man; whereas they ought to be just and equal, (<031935>Leviticus 19:35,36); both of them [are] alike abomination to the Lord; who loves righteousness and hates iniquity, and requires of men to do justly; and abhors every act of injustice, and whatever is detrimental to men’s properties; (see <201101>Proverbs 11:1 16:11).

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