Dishonesty

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningLeviticus 6:2–7Leviticus 19:13Leviticus 19:35Leviticus 19:36Deuteronomy 25:13–16Job 24:2–11Psalms 37:21Psalms 50:18Psalms 62:10Proverbs 3:27Proverbs 3:28Proverbs 11:1Proverbs 20:10Proverbs 20:14Proverbs 20:17Proverbs 20:23Isaiah 32:7Jeremiah 7:8–10Jeremiah 9:4–6Jeremiah 9:8
• INSTANCES OF
• Abimelech's servants confiscate a wellGenesis 21:25Genesis 26:15–22
• Jacob obtains his brother's birthright by an unjust advantageGenesis 25:29–33
• Jacob steals his father's blessingGenesis 27:6–29
• Jacob gains from Laban's flocks by skillful manipulationGenesis 30:31–43
• Rebekah's craftiness in Jacob's behalfGenesis 27:6–17
• Laban's treatment of JacobGenesis 29:21–30Genesis 31:36–42
• Rachel steals the household godsGenesis 31:19
• Simeon and Levi deceive the ShechemitesGenesis 34:15–31
• Achan hides the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garmentJoshua 7:11–26
• Micah steals one-thousand one-hundred pieces of silverJudges 17:2

The passages, in Bible order (51)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 21:25

   But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

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2. Genesis 25:29–33

   One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:29–332 voices

   “Jacob sod pottage--made of lentils or small beans, which are common in Egypt and Syria. It is probable that it was made of Egyptian beans, which Jacob had procured as a dainty; for Esau was a stranger to it.

   “Sod pottage - יזד נזיד yazed nazid, he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, Gen 25:34, was of עדשים adashim, what the Septuagint render φακος, and we, following them and the Vulgate lens, translate lentils, a sort of pulse.

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3. Genesis 26:15–22

   So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 26:15–222 voices

   “This Isaac, therefore, our Savior, when he has come into that valley of Gerar, first of all wishes to dig those wells that the servants of his father had dug; he wishes to renew the wells of the law, of course, and the prophets, which Philistines had filled with earth.Who are those who fill the wells with earth? Those, doubtless, who put an earthly and fleshly interpretation on the law and close up the spiritual and mystical interpretation so that neither do they themselves drink nor do they permit others to drink.

   “For all the wells - the Philistines had stopped them - In such countries a good well was a great acquisition; and hence in predatory wars it was usual for either party to fill the wells with earth or sand, in order to distress the enemy. The filling up the wells in this case was a most unprincipled transaction, as they had pledged themselves to Abraham, by a solemn oath, not to injure each other in this or any other respect. See Gen 21:25-31.

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4. Genesis 27:6–29

   Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

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   “Rebekah spake unto Jacob--She prized the blessing as invaluable; she knew that God intended it for the younger son [Ge 25:23]; and in her anxiety to secure its being conferred on the right object--on one who cared for religion--she acted in the sincerity of faith; but in crooked policy--with unenlightened zeal; on the false principle that the end would sanctify the means.

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5. Genesis 29:21–30

   Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

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6. Genesis 30:31–43

   “What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.

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7. Genesis 31:19

   Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

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   “(Verse 19) And Rachel stole her father's idols. Where we now read idols, it is written in Hebrew Theraphim, which Aquila interprets as μορφώματα, that is, figures or images. This is done so that we may understand what the word Theraphim means in the Book of Judges (17:5).

   “Laban went to shear his sheep - Laban had gone; and this was a favorable time not only to take his images, but to return to Canaan without being perceived. Rachel had stolen the images - תרפים teraphim. What the teraphim were is utterly unknown.

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8. Genesis 31:36–42

   Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

   ›Commentary on Genesis 31:36–421 voice

   “And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban - The expostulation of Jacob with Laban, and their consequent agreement, are told in this place with great spirit and dignity. Jacob was conscious that though he had made use of cunning to increase his flocks, yet Laban had been on the whole a great gainer by his services. He had served him at least twenty years, fourteen for Rachel and Leah, and six for the cattle; and some suppose he had served him twenty years besides the above, which is not unlikely: see the remarks at the conclusion of this chapter.

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9. Genesis 34:15–31

   We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

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10. Leviticus 6:2–7

    “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 6:2–72 voices

    “Lie unto his neighbor, etc. - This must refer to a case in which a person delivered his property to his neighbor to be preserved for him, and took no witness to attest the delivery of the goods; such a person therefore might deny that he had ever received such goods, for he who had deposited them with him could bring no proof of the delivery.

    “Though all the instances relate to our neighbour, yet it is called a trespass against the Lord, because, though the injury be done immediately to our neighbour, yet an affront is thereby given to his Maker and our Master. He that speaks evil of his brother is said to speak evil of the law, and consequently of the Law-maker, Jam. iv.

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11. Leviticus 19:13

    You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:132 voices

    “Let no one deny the hireling the wage he is owed, since we too are hirelings of our God, and from him we look forward to the reward of our labor. And if you indeed, whatever type of businessman you are, deny your hireling a monetary payment that is a perishable trifle, you shall be denied the reward of heaven that has been promised. You shall not defraud, as the law says, the hireling of his pay.

    “Let the day-labourer have his wages as soon as he has done his day's work, if he desire it. It is a great sin to deny the payment of it, nay, to defer it, to his damage, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance, Jam. v. 4 .

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12. Leviticus 19:35

    You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:351 voice

    “The ephah is here taken as the standard of dry measure, and the bin (see Exo 29:40 note) as the standard of liquid measure. Of the two very different estimates of the capacities of these measures, the more probable is that the ephah did not hold quite four gallons and a half, and the hin not quite six pints. The log was a twelfth part of the hin Lev 14:10. Lev 19:36 I am the Lord your God ... - A full stop should precede these words.

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13. Leviticus 19:36

    You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:361 voice

    “Just balances - Scales, steel-yard, etc. Weights, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. Ephah, hin, etc., see before.

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14. Deuteronomy 25:13–16

    You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:13–162 voices

    “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,.... Or, "a stone and a stone" (y); it being usual, in those times and countries, to have their weights of stone, as it was formerly with us here; we still say, that such a commodity is worth so much per stone, a stone being of such a weight; now these were not to be different: a great and a small; great weights, to buy with them, and small weights, to sell with them, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it. (y) אבן ואבן "lapis et lapis", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator.

    “Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Lev 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luk 3:12 ff); and that “the prophets” (compare Eze 45:10-12; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:10-11) and “the Psalms” Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10, Pro 20:23, not less than “the Law,” especially insist on them. Deu 25:13 Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with.

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15. Joshua 7:11–26

    Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 7:11–261 voice

    “Also stolen, and dissembled also - The anger of God and the heinousness of Israel’s sin are marked by the accumulation of clause upon clause. As a climax they had even appropriated to their own use the consecrated property purloined from God.

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16. Judges 17:2

    said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

    ›Commentary on Judges 17:21 voice

    “About which thou cursedst - Houbigant and others understand this of putting the young man to his oath. It is likely that when the mother of Micah missed the money, she poured imprecations on the thief; and that Micah, who had secreted it, hearing this, was alarmed, and restored the money lest the curses should fall on him.

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