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10 Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.[a] 11 The homer[b] will be your standard unit for measuring volume. The ephah and the bath[c] will each measure one-tenth of a homer. 12 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.[d] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:10 Hebrew Use honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
  2. 45:11a The homer measures about 50 gallons or 220 liters.
  3. 45:11b The ephah is a dry measure; the bath is a liquid measure.
  4. 45:12a The shekel weighs about 0.4 ounces or 11 grams.
  5. 45:12b Elsewhere the mina is equated to 50 shekels.

10 “You shall have (A)accurate balances, an accurate [a](B)ephah, and an accurate [b](C)bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be [c]the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a (D)homer, and the ephah a tenth of a [d]homer; [e]their standard shall be according to the homer. 12 And the (E)shekel shall be twenty (F)gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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  1. Ezekiel 45:10 I.e., a dry measure, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 I.e., a liquid measure, about 6 gallons or 23 liters
  3. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit one
  4. Ezekiel 45:11 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters
  5. Ezekiel 45:11 Lit its measure