Leviticus 19:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. ”

• Leviticus 19:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measu...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in (o) meteyard, in weight, or in measure. (o) As in measuring the ground.

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Final Rules of Humanity and Justice. Resident aliens are to be respected; fraud is to be banished. For the stranger, cf. Leviticus 17:8 f.*. Straightforward dealing is here placed in a position...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  meteyard . measures of length or dimension. Weight . measures of weight. Measure . measures of capacity.

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. If you take the word judgment in its strict sense, this will be a special precept, that judges should faithfully do justice to all,...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Ye shall do no unrighteousness - Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in t...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, &c.— i.e. "Ye shall conduct yourselves through life, and especially in all your commerce and dealings, by the strictest rules of exact justice." It i...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Various Laws, mainly of a Moral and Humane Character This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the prece...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. — It will be seen that the Lawgiver uses here exactly the same phrase with regard to meting out right measure which he used in connection with the admini...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1-37 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These precepts are to the same effect as the former, in point of plainness and tendency. And they are enforced by the same authority. It is very interesting to the true believer in CHRIST, while read...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment ,.... This is repeated from Leviticus 19:15 ; and in order to lead on to some other laws and instructions; though Aben Ezra thinks this is said in connect...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Ver. 35. Mete yard. ] Or line, for measuring of ground.

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In mete-yard In the measuring of lands, or dry things, as cloth, riband. In measure In the measuring liquid or such dry things as are only contiguous, as corn or wine.

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• Leviticus 19:35 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (vv. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Moral Laws. B. C. 1490.       30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In meteyard; in the measuring of lands, or any dry and continued things, as cloth, ribband, &c. In measure; in the measuring of liquid or such dry things as are not continued, only contiguous...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Importance Of Justice And Honesty ( Leviticus 19:35-36 ). Leviticus 19:35-36 “You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Just balances,...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2 .—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus doe...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Just balances, Just weights shall ye have. Business honesty I. Social life is based upon commercial contracts. Each bringing to the other some product of skill or toil. We cannot supply a fract...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds...

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 8:5 ; Amos 8:6 ; Deuteronomy 25:13 ; Deuteronomy 25:15 ; Ezekiel 22:12 ; Ezekiel 22:13 ; Leviticus 19:15 ; Micah 6:1 ; Matthew 7:2 ; Proverbs 11:1 ; Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10

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• Leviticus 19:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In mete — yard — In the measuring of lands, or dry things, as cloth, ribband. In measure — In the measuring liquid or such dry things as are only contigious, as corn or wine.

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