Teks -- Leviticus 19:36 (NET)

19:36 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.

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Wesley: Lev 19:36 - A just ephah and a just hin

These two two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things, but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures.

Clarke: Lev 19:36 - Just balances

Just balances - Scales, steel-yard, etc. Weights, אבנים abanim , stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. Ephah, hin, etc., see before.

Calvin: Lev 19:36 - I am the Lord your God

36.I am the Lord your God In these first four passages he treats of the same points which we have observed in the preface to the Law; for he reasons partly from God’s authority, that the law should be reverently obeyed, because the Creator of heaven and earth justly claims supreme dominion; and, partly, he sets before them the blessing of redemption, that they may willingly submit themselves to His law, from whom they have obtained their safety. For, whenever God calls Himself Jehovah, it should suggest His majesty, before which all ought to be humbled; whilst redemption should of itself produce voluntary submission. At the beginning he repeats the same words which he had lately used; and thence exhorts them to observe His statutes and judgments, i.e., treasure them diligently in their minds. Afterwards he reminds them wherefore they ought attentively to observe the Law, viz, that they may perform the works which God therein requires. Nor is it without a reason that at the end of the second verse He declares Himself to be Jehovah, because it is not easy either to subdue rebellious minds or to retain fickle ones in the fear of God. In the next verse, the qualification “which sanctify you” is added, to arouse them earnestly to prove their gratitude to God, who has by peculiar privilege separated them from the rest of mankind.

TSK: Lev 19:36 - Just balances // weights // I am

Just balances : Pro 11:1

weights : Heb. stones

I am : Exo 20:2

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Poole: Lev 19:36 - A just ephah, and a just hin

A just ephah, and a just hin these two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things; but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures.

Haydock: Lev 19:36 - Weights // Bushel

Weights. Hebrew, "stones of justice," for stone weights were formerly used, Proverbs xvi. 11. ---

Bushel, &c. Hebrew, "a just epha, and a just hin." (Calmet)

Gill: Lev 19:36 - 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

Just balances, just weights,.... Which were for such sort of things as were bought and sold by weight, and these were to be according to the custom and usage which universally obtained among them, or were fixed and settled by them; they were to be neither lighter nor heavier; they were not to have one sort to buy with, and another to sell with, which was not just, and was an abomination to the Lord, Pro 11:1; for "weights", it is in the original text "stones", for those were formerly used in weighing, and were with us: hence it is still in use to say, so much by the stone. And according to Maimonides ^w, the Jews were not to make their weights neither of iron, nor of lead, nor of the rest of metals, lest they should rust and become light, but of polished rock, and the like:

a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have; the first of these was the measure of things dry, as corn, and the like, the latter of things liquid, as oil and wine; the one held three seahs or pecks, or ten omers, Exo 16:36; or, according to a nicer calculation, the ephah held seven gallons, two quarts, and half a pint; and the other, according to some, held three quarts; but, as more exactly calculated, it held a wine gallon, and a little more than a quart; see Gill on Exo 30:24. Some Jewish writers ^x refer this to words, promises, and compacts, expressed by yea and nay, which they were to abide by; that their yea should be yea, and their nay, nay, Mat 5:37; that their affirmation should be just, and so their negation:

I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; and therefore were under great obligations to observe his commands, as follows.