What Does Ezekiel 45:10 Mean in the King James?

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:10 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Justice here has a measure: the same word marks the balances, the grain measure, and the liquid measure.

THE MEANING

The verse locates fairness in ordinary exchanges: the quantity named and the amount measured belong under one standard. Its repeated measure makes justice visible in the tools used for grain and liquid now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Fairness is only an inward intention or a public ideal, untouched by the quantities exchanged in daily life.

THE ROOT

צֶדֶק

tsedeq

GROWS FROM

צדק

Alignment; what is right or set in proper relation.

The same Hebrew word for alignment describes the balances, the ephah, and the bath, so justice reaches into the quantities people exchange. English can make “just” sound like a general quality; the repeated root makes it a standard carried by each measuring tool.

ALSO GROWS

tzedakah: Alignment expressed as justice or right action.

צְדָקָה

This branch shows the same root’s alignment extending from the measure itself into how people act toward one another.

tsaddiq: A person who is just or aligned.

צַדִּיק

Here the root describes a person as well as a measure: both are evaluated by whether they are set right.

THE PATTERN

A measure becomes a moral act when its standard determines what another person receives.

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:36 · KJVThe same standard governs several measures, making fairness concrete in the quantities exchanged.

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

Proverbs 20:10 · KJVChanging the measure changes what another receives, so unequal standards carry moral weight.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Matthew 7:2 · KJVThe measure used toward another also becomes the measure applied back to the one who uses it.

THE THREAD

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:36 · KJV

Ezekiel repeats ⁨צֶדֶק⁩ (tsedeq, alignment) across balances, grain, and liquid; Leviticus uses the same word across balances, weights, and measures. The shared root reveals one standard of alignment running through every quantity people exchange.

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