Deuteronomy 25:14
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
BSB
ASV
Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
KJV
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Divers measures - Literally, an ephah and an ephah; one large, to buy thy neighbor’s wares, another small, to sell thy own by. So there were knaves in all ages, and among all nations. See the notes on Exo 16:16, and Lev 19:35 (note).
Thou shalt not have . . . divers weights--Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS].
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
