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10 You must use just balances,[a] a just dry measure (an ephah),[b] and a just liquid measure (a bath).[c] 11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same: The bath will contain a tenth of a homer,[d] and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure. 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels[e] will be a mina for you.

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  1. Ezekiel 45:10 sn Previous legislation regarding this practice may be found in Lev 19:35-36; Deut 25:13-16; Mic 6:10-12.
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.
  3. Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.
  4. Ezekiel 45:11 sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
  5. Ezekiel 45:12 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”

10 “You are to have honest scales, an honest dry measure,[a] and an honest liquid measure.[b](A) 11 The dry measure[c] and the liquid measure[d] will be uniform, with the liquid measure containing 5½ gallons[e] and the dry measure holding half a bushel.[f] Their measurement will be a tenth of the standard larger capacity measure.[g] 12 The shekel[h] will weigh twenty gerahs.(B) Your mina will equal sixty shekels.

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  1. 45:10 Lit an honest ephah
  2. 45:10 Lit and an honest bath
  3. 45:11 Lit The ephah
  4. 45:11 Lit the bath
  5. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  6. 45:11 Lit one-tenth of a homer
  7. 45:11 Lit be based on the homer
  8. 45:12 A shekel is about two-fifths of an ounce of silver