Weights: The Jews: Forbidden to Have Various
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Deuteronomy 25:13,14
You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Commerce
... But no sketch of commerce among the early Jews, however brief ... dealer twice a week;
that all weights were to ... of the public, agriculturists were forbidden to sell ...
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Book ii.
... for no other people but the Jews have avoided all ... one cheats another in measures
or weights, or makes ... And indeed our legislator hath expressly forbidden us to ...
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Babylonia and Assyria
... The Jews alone had no images to take; the sacred ... medicine, while the prophet himself
was forbidden to utter ... One of the standard maneh-weights of stone, from ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Faustus States his Objections to the Morality of the Law and the ...
... you should join with me in condemning the Jews for injuring ... And by unlawful is meant
what is forbidden by the law ... if he had so chosen, he would not have fallen ...
/.../faustus states his objections to.htm

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
... ought to be punished as felony; double weights, too heavy ... as it was given in particular
to the Jews, but as ... upon the account that now they have an opportunity ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the life and death of.htm

A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, an Exhortation to ...
... sin, is to be dead to those things forbidden in the ... vagabond Jews, the exorcists,
there say, 'We adjure you by ... yea, it did hang upon them as weights to hinder ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a holy life the beauty.htm

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
... doth think his own religion rightest, both Jews and Moors ... companions was; yea, gladly
would I have been in ... soul to perish under the everlasting weights of hell ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/grace abounding to the chief.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... DOWER. 'We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us.'"2 Corinthians 4:7. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm

Resources
What are the modern equivalents of biblical weights and measures? | GotQuestions.org

What was the sanctuary shekel? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about eating disorders (e.g., anorexia, bulimia)? | GotQuestions.org

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