⁹ “‘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. ¹² The shekel^[c] is to consist of twenty gerahs.^(F) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.^[d]

¹³ “‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah^[e] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah^[f] from each homer of barley. ¹⁴ The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath^[g] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer). ¹⁵ Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings^(G) and fellowship offerings to make atonement^(H) for the people, declares the Sovereign Lord. ¹⁶ All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel. ¹⁷ It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons^(I) and the Sabbaths^(J)—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,^[h] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.^(K)