InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Deu C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34
Deu 25 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19
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OET (OET-RV) Don’t keep two stone weights in your bag—a lighter one and a heavier one for when you’re buying and selling.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אֶ֣בֶן וָאָ֑בֶן
weight and,a_weight
Moses is using a stone and a stone as a common expression of his culture to refer to two different stones of different weights, a large and a small, used for weighing goods. This refers to a stone people used as a standard weight. Merchants could deceive and cheat their customers by using stones of different weights that he pretends are the same. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [unequal weights]
OET (OET-RV) Don’t keep two stone weights in your bag—a lighter one and a heavier one for when you’re buying and selling.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.