So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “[a]Quickly, prepare three [b]measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes.”

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  1. Genesis 18:6 Lit Hasten three measures
  2. Genesis 18:6 Heb seah; i.e. one seah equals approx eleven qts

So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs[a] of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”(A)

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  1. Genesis 18:6 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

19 Then Gideon went in and (A)prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an [a]ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket [b]and the broth in a pot, and brought them out to him under the [c]oak and presented them.

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  1. Judges 6:19 I.e. Approx one bu
  2. Judges 6:19 Lit and he put
  3. Judges 6:19 Or terebinth

19 Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat,(A) and from an ephah[a](B) of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.(C)

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  1. Judges 6:19 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

24 Now when she had weaned him, (A)she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to (B)the house of the Lord in Shiloh, although the child was young.

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24 After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,[a](A) an ephah[b] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

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  1. 1 Samuel 1:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text with three bulls
  2. 1 Samuel 1:24 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms