Proverbs 20:10 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.”

Proverbs 20:10 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Proverbs 20:10 in 6 Bible Translations

Read Proverbs 20:10 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.

Proverbs 20:10 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.”

Proverbs 20:10 — World English Bible

Proverbs 20:10 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.”

Proverbs 20:10 — American Standard Version

Proverbs 20:10 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah.”

Proverbs 20:10 — Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 20:10 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.”

Proverbs 20:10 — Darby Translation

Proverbs 20:10 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Diuers weightes, and diuers measures, both these are euen abomination vnto the Lord.”

Proverbs 20:10 — Geneva Bible

Proverbs 20:10 in Context — Proverbs 20

8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

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What Does Proverbs 20:10 Mean?

Proverbs 20:10 is a verse from the Book of Proverbs, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Proverbs chapter 20. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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