Proverbs 20:23
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Abomination Balance Balances Deceit Detests Differing Disgusting Dishonest Divers Diverse Good Please Pleasing Scale Scales Stone Unequal Weights
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Abomination Balance Balances Deceit Detests Differing Disgusting Dishonest Divers Diverse Good Please Pleasing Scale Scales Stone Unequal Weights
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

New American Standard Bible
Differing weights are an abomination to the LORD, And a false scale is not good.

King James Bible
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Differing weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are unfair.

International Standard Version
The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not good.

NET Bible
The LORD abhors differing weights, and dishonest scales are wicked.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Discrepant weights are defiled before Lord Jehovah and deceitful scales are not good.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A double standard of weights is disgusting to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.

King James 2000 Bible
Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

American King James Version
Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

American Standard Version
Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

Darby Bible Translation
Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.

English Revised Version
Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Webster's Bible Translation
Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

World English Bible
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

Young's Literal Translation
An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
Lexicon
Divers weights
'eben  (eh'-ben)
a stone -- + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
'eben  (eh'-ben)
a stone -- + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
are an abomination
tow`ebah  (to-ay-baw')
something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol -- abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
unto the LORD
Yhovah  (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
and a false.
mirmah  (meer-maw')
fraud -- craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
balance
mo'zen  (mo-zane')
(only in the dual) a pair of scales -- balances.
is not good
towb  (tobe)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun
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