209. Weights
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1. The marginal reading for “divers weights” is “a stone and a stone,” which is a literal rendering of the Hebrew. See also Proverbs 11:1; 16:111A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. (Proverbs 11:1)
11A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work. (Proverbs 16:11). Weights were no doubt originally made of different-sized stones, from which fact eben, a stone, was used to signify a weight, even after other materials were used for weights. We have the word “stone” in our own language to denote a weight of a certain size, and the Germans use the corresponding word stein for a similar purpose.