Deut 25:13

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in thy bag.

Lev 19:35; Lev 19:36; Prov 11:1; Prov 16:11; Prov 20:10; Ezek 45:10; Ezek 45:11; Amos 8:5

Mic 6:11; Mic 6:12

divers weights. Heb. a stone and a stone.{Aivenw�iven;} because weights were anciently made of stone.

Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shews us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.