A STONE — and, in the marketplace, a WEIGHT, because weights were stones. Proverbs 16:11 calls a merchant's set the stones of the bag and Micah 6:11 a bag of deceitful stones (neither yet on these pages); Leviticus 19:36 (already on these pages) demands stones of justice. ⭐ Deuteronomy 25:13–15 forbids a stone and a stone in the bag — Hebrew's idiom for two different kinds, a heavy one to buy with and a light one to sell with — and commands a whole stone, even shelemah. That phrase stands in three verses of the Hebrew Bible: the honest weight here, Proverbs 11:1's a whole stone is his delight, and 1 Kings 6:7's temple, built of whole stone from the quarry so that no iron tool was heard in it (neither yet on these pages) — an honest weight and Solomon's masonry sharing an adjective, and the altar of Deuteronomy 27:6 (now on these pages) to be made of the plural, whole stones that no iron has touched. ⚠ Elsewhere the word is simply a stone: the pillow at Bethel (Genesis 28:11), the one rolled from the well's mouth (29:3), the tablets (Exodus 24:12), all already on these pages. Only the NWT 2013 and TNM 2019 print the stone at Deuteronomy 25:13; everyone else translates it to 'weights'. → first discussed at Deut 25:13