Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Leviticus 19:36
A just ephah and a just hin These two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things, but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures.
A just ephah and a just hin These two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things, but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures.
Verse Leviticus 19:36. _JUST BALANCES_] _Scales, steel-yard_, c. _Weights_, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. _Ephah, hin_, c., see before....
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,...
2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4
FINAL RULES OF HUMANITY AND JUSTICE. Resident aliens are to be respected; fraud is to be banished. For the stranger, _cf. Leviticus 17:8_ f.*. Straightforward dealing is here placed in a position of s...
JUST BALANCES. Hebrew balances of justice. Genitive of character. So with the other measures in this verse. Compare Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11;...
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...
CONCLUDING INJUCTIONS 19:30-37 TEXT 19:30-37 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah. 31 Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek...
_YE SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT, IN METEYARD, IN WEIGHT, OR IN MEASURE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
19:36 weights, (b-4) Lit. 'stones.'...
The ephah (about a bushel) and the hin (about a gallon and a half) are used here as representative measures: cp. Ezekiel 45:10....
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...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
JUST BALANCES, JUST WEIGHTS. — That is, they were to be the same for buying as for selling. JUST EPHAH. — The ephah is the dry measure, and contained ten omers. (See Leviticus 14:10.) It is the same...
מֹ֧אזְנֵי צֶ֣דֶק אַבְנֵי ־צֶ֗דֶק אֵ֥יפַת צֶ֛דֶק...
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...
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,...
Just balances, just weights, a just (p) ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. (p) By these two measures he means all other. Of Ep...
_Weights. Hebrew, "stones of justice," for stone weights were formerly used, Proverbs xvi. 11. --- Bushel, &c. Hebrew, "a just epha, and a just hin." (Calmet)_...
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...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
36._I am the Lord your God. _In these first four passages he treats of the same points which we have observed in the preface to the Law; for he reasons partly from God’s authority, that the law should...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
JUST BALANCES, JUST WEIGHTS,.... Which were for such sort of things as were bought and sold by weight, and these were to be according to the custom and usage which universally obtained among them, or...
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. Ver. 36. _Just balances._] See Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs...
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...
MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (VV. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times. Bu...
WEIGHTS: _ Heb._ stones...
A JUST EPHAH, AND A JUST HIN; these two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things; but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures....
Leviticus 19:36 honest H6664 scales H3976 honest H6664 weights H68 honest H6664 ephah H374 honest H6664 hin H1969
THE IMPORTANCE OF JUSTICE AND HONESTY (LEVITICUS 19:35). Leviticus 19:35 “You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. Just balances, just weights,...
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,...
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,...
_Just balances, Just weights shall ye have._ BUSINESS HONESTY I. Social life is based upon commercial contracts. Each bringing to the other some product of skill or toil. We cannot supply a fraction...
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
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...
EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of imm...
Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen. Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...
Exodus 20:2; Proverbs 11:1...
A just ephah and a just hin — These two two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things, but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures....