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Proverbs 20:10

Proverbs 20:10

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Divers weights, and divers measures: Heb. a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Deuteronomy 25:13

both: Proverbs 20:23, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11; Leviticus 19:35; Deuteronomy 25:13-15; Amos 8:4-7; Micah 6:10-11

abomination: Deuteronomy 7:25-26; Revelation 21:8

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