Deuteronomy 25:15

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“You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”

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Read Deuteronomy 25:15 in the flow of Deuteronomy25 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Deuteronomy25 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

“You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 25:15 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  2. Leviticus 19:35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  4. Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  5. Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  6. Deuteronomy 6:18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  7. Deuteronomy 11:9and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  8. Deuteronomy 17:20Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
  9. Psalms 34:12Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
  10. Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
  11. Ephesians 6:3“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
  12. 1 Peter 3:10For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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