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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Leviticus 19:35

In mete — yard — In the measuring of lands, or dry things, as cloth, ribband. In measure — In the measuring liquid or such dry things as are only contigious, as corn or wine.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 19:35. _YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS_] Ye shall not act contrary to the strictest justice in any case, and especially in the _four_ following, which properly understood, comprise all...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exodus 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    METEYARD. measures of length or dimension. WEIGHT. measures of weight. MEASURE. measures of capacity....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Uprightness enjoined in judgement and in commercial dealings. Cp. Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Ezekiel 45:9 ff. _meteyard_ lit. (Anglo-Saxon _met-geard_) a measuring rod. For the word see _Taming of the Shr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT, &C.— i.e. "Ye shall conduct yourselves through life, and especially in all your commerce and dealings, by the strictest rules of exact justice." It is to be...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT, IN METEYARD, IN WEIGHT, OR IN MEASURE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS LAWS, MAINLY OF A MORAL AND HUMANE CHARACTER This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the precepts...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    METEYARD] i.e. measuring rod....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT. — It will be seen that the Lawgiver uses here exactly the same phrase with regard to meting out right measure which he used in connection with the administr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־תַעֲשׂ֥וּ עָ֖וֶל בַּ † מִּשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor of the c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in (o) meteyard, in weight, or in measure. (o) As in measuring the ground....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rule; Hebrew, "taking dimensions" with a yard, tape, &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These precepts are to the same effect as the former, in point of plainness and tendency. And they are enforced by the same authority. It is very interesting to the true believer in CHRIST, while readi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Leviticus 19:35_Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment_. If you take the word judgment in its strict sense, this will be a special precept, that judges should faithfully do justice to all, and not...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT,.... This is repeated from Leviticus 19:15; and in order to lead on to some other laws and instructions; though Aben Ezra thinks this is said in connection w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Ver. 35. _Mete yard._] Or line, for measuring of ground....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In mete-yard_ In the measuring of lands, or dry things, as cloth, riband. _In measure_ In the measuring liquid or such dry things as are only contiguous, as corn or wine....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 A repetition of sundry Lawes. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN METEYARD; in the measuring of lands, or any dry and continued things, as cloth, ribband, &c. IN MEASURE; in the measuring of liquid or such dry things as are not continued, only contiguous, as of c...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 19:35 do H6213 (H8799) injustice H5766 judgment H4941 length H4060 weight H4948 volume H4884 no unrighteousness -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:1__ The Lord strongly commands the people (including the priests) to become holy in their practice, as he is holy (v. Leviticus 19:2). They do this by observi

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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