mete-yard] Or line, for the measuring of ground. The Hebrewes say, there was injustice in the mete-yard, when a man measured ground for one in faire weather, for another in foule; for in rainy weather it was longer, and in faire weather shorter: which may be true if the Line were of leather, or of such matter as the string of a Watch: but the ordinary lines, ropes, or cords of haire, or hempe, or flaxe, flagge more in dry weather, and so are longer then in wet. in weight] Wherein, (as some of the Hebrewes say) not onely he offended that used an unjust weight and ballance, but he also that had them at home, though he used them not; perhaps, because having them by him, he might sometimes be tempted to make ill use of them; at least it argued too little zeale against injustice in him who would keepe them neere him, when with detestation he should cast them from him, as the monuments, and inticements to Idolatry, Isaiah 30, 22. measure] There might be a two-fold unrighteousnesse in measure; the one when it was not of a just capacitie, the other when it was so filled with liquid things, by pouring them out with an high hand, that there was much froth in stead of substantiall liquor; which after a while would shrinke, and so the want of due measure would be manifest.