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Deuteronomy 25:13
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11 “If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,
12 then you shall cut off her hand; ayour eye shall not pity her.  
13 a“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.  
14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, athat your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.  
16 For aall who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are1 an abomination to the Lord your God.  

Destroy the Amalekites

17 a“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16

Thou shalt not have . . . divers weights—Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS]. (Compare Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10).


 
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