“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,[a](A) princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right.(B) Put an end to your evictions of my people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. 10 “You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[b] and an honest liquid measure.[c](C) 11 The dry measure[d] and the liquid measure[e] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons[f] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[g] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[h]

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  1. 45:9 Lit Enough of you
  2. 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  3. 45:10 Lit and an honest bath
  4. 45:11 Lit The ephah
  5. 45:11 Lit the bath
  6. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  7. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  8. 45:11 Lit be based on the homer

“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression(A) and do what is just and right.(B) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. 10 You are to use accurate scales,(C) an accurate ephah[a](D) and an accurate bath.[b] 11 The ephah(E) and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.