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11 The dry measure and the liquid measure will be the same: The liquid measure will always be a tenth of a homer,[a] and the ephah will always be a tenth of a homer. The measurement they follow will be the homer. 12 The shekel[b] will be worth twenty gerahs, and a mina will be worth sixty shekels.

Offerings and Holy Days

13 “‘This is the gift you should offer: a sixth of an ephah from every homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from every homer of barley.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:11 homer The Hebrew word means “donkey-load.” It measured about five dry bushels or one hundred seventy-five liquid quarts. So an ephah was about one-half bushel, and a bath was about eighteen quarts.
  2. 45:12 shekel In Ezekiel’s time a shekel weighed about two-fifths of an ounce.

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