Diverse weights; literally, a stone and a stone—a large one for buying, and a small one for selling (cf. Amos 8:5). Both weights and measures were to be "perfect," i.e. exactly correct, and so just. (On the promise in Deuteronomy 25:15, see Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 5:16.
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Deuteronomy 25:13
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