Ezekiel 45:10-12
New English Translation
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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- 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.
- Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.
- Ezekiel 45:10 tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.
- Ezekiel 45:11 sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
- Ezekiel 45:12 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”
Ezekiel 45:10-12
American Standard Version
10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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