Deuteronomy 25:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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עָֽוֶל

ʻevel

H5766

“injustice”

Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute

Appears 54× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 19:15

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5765

TWOT: 1580a , 1580b

injustice, unrighteousness, wrong - violent deeds of injustice - injustice (of speech) - injustice (generally)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עָֽוֶל injustice H5766 occurs in 51 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
6 nouns
1 pronoun
1 conjunction

Verb forms

עֹ֣שֵׂה Qal · Participle Active
עֹ֥שֵׂה Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

כָּל all H3605 ×2
עֹ֣שֵׂה to do H6213 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 25:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, But accurate weights are his delight.
Revelation 21:27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
Amos 8:5–7 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel large, And dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
1 Thessalonians 4:6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
Proverbs 20:23 Yahweh detests differing weights, And dishonest scales are not pleasing.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 25:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ כָּל עֹ֣שֵׂה אֵ֑לֶּה כֹּ֖ל עֹ֥שֵׂה עָֽוֶל

For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 25:16 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅτι βδέλυγμα κύριος ὁ θεός σύ πᾶς ποιέω οὗτος πᾶς ποιέω ἄδικος

For every one that does this is an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

אֲרֵי מְרָחָק קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלהָךְ כָּל עָבֵד אִלֵין כֹּל עָבֵד שְׁקַר

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

אֲרוּם מְרַחֵק קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן כָּל דְּעָבֵיד אִלֵּין נִיכְלַיָא כָּל דְּעָבֵיד שִׁיקְרָא בִּפְרַקְמַטְיָא

For whosoever committeth these frauds, every one who acteth falsely in trade, is an abomination before the Lord.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 25:16 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

16. everyone that doeth these things, etc.] Exactly as in Deu_18:12, Deu_22:5. On abomination, see Deu_7:25; here the ethical (not ritual) meaning is clear.

every one that doeth injustice] Heb. ‘awel (perhaps lit. delinquency). Not elsewhere in D (but in the Song, Deu_32:4), once in Jer_2:5, and in H, Lev_19:15; Lev_19:35, and Ezek. and later writings. The clause seems to be an addition.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

For all that do such things,.... Keep, different weights and measures, and make use of them to defraud their neighbours in buying and selling:

and all that do unrighteously; what is not just and right between man and man, in any other instance whatever:

are an abomination unto the Lord thy God; both they and their actions; he is a righteous God, and loves righteousness, and hates injustice of every kind.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Injustice. Proverbs xx. 10. To have a greater weight for buying and a less one for selling, is the way to grow rich here, or to obtain the mammon of iniquity; though, when such mean practices are detected, the man who cheats often loses more than he had gained; and at any rate, must either make restitution, if possible, or receive the wages of his unjust labour and craft in the world to come. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

cf. Deu_22:5 Deu_23:12 All that do unrighteously; equivalent to all that transgress any law.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻevel (“injustice”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “injustice” (ʻevel) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 19:15, which shares the word «injustice», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “all” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«עֹ֣שֵׂה» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“all” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.