Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:10

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

10 Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.

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Verse 10

Original words

Differing אֶ֣בֶן H68 Noun - feminine singular weights וָ֭אֶבֶן H68 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular and unequal measures אֵיפָ֣ה H374 Noun - feminine singular . . . וְאֵיפָ֑ה H374 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular both שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃ H8147 Number - masculine dual construct | third person masculine plural are detestable תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת H8441 Noun - feminine singular construct to the LORD יְ֝הוָ֗ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular . . . גַּם־ H1571 Conjunction

BSB notes

  • Hebrew A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah

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