Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

King James Version

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Holman Bible

You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

International Standard Version

You must have honest weights and measuring devices, so you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you,

A Conservative Version

A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

American Standard Version

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Amplified

You shall have a perfect (full) and just weight, and a perfect and just measure, so that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Bible in Basic English

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Darby Translation

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Julia Smith Translation

A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just

King James 2000

But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Rather] a full and honest weight shall be {for your use}; there shall be for you a full and honest {measure}, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you may be long.

Modern King James verseion

You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

NET Bible

You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

New Heart English Bible

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

The Emphasized Bible

A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, - that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.

Webster

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

World English Bible

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁלם 
Shalem 
Usage: 28

שׁלם 
Shalem 
Usage: 28

אפה איפה 
'eyphah 
Usage: 40

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

in the land
אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

14 Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. 16 Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.

Cross References

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 4:40

You must keep the regulations and commandments I commanded you today. Then all will go well with you and with your children after you. You may prolong your days on the earth that Jehovah your God gives you for all time.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Follow all the directions Jehovah your God has given you. Then you will continue to live. Life will go well for you! You will live for a long time in the land that you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 6:18

Do what is right and good in Jehovah's sight. Then you will be able to go in and possess this good land from your enemies, just as he promised your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 11:9

Then you may prolong your days on the land Jehovah swore to give to your fathers and their descendants. It is a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 17:20

He must not think he is better than the rest of his people. He will not disobey these commandments in any way. So he and his sons will rule for a long time in Israel.

Psalm 34:12

Which of you wants a full life? Who would like to live long enough to enjoy good things?

Ephesians 6:3

Then it will go well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

1 Peter 3:10

Whoever would love life and see good days should keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

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