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
Common English Bible
10 You must use fair scales, a fair ephah,[a] and a fair bath.[b] 11 The ephah and the bath must be the same size. Both should be calibrated to the homer: each will contain one-tenth of a homer. 12 The shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels will equal one maneh for you.
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- Ezekiel 45:10 One ephah is approximately twenty quarts of grain.
- Ezekiel 45:10 One bath is approximately twenty quarts of liquid.
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