Key Verse Spotlight
Proverbs 20:10 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Divers weights, {and} divers measures, both of them {are} alike abomination to the LORD. {Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone} {divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}”
Proverbs 20:10
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Divers weights, {and} divers measures, both of them {are} alike abomination to the LORD. {Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone} {divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {be} pure, and whether {it be} right.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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