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10 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah,[a] and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,[b] and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer. 12 The shekel[c] shall be twenty gerahs.[d] Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
  2. 45:11 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels
  3. 45:12 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
  4. 45:12 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains
  5. 45:12 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.

10 “You shall have (A)honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer. 12 The (B)shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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