fSee Lev. 19:35, 36
Genesis 23:16
16Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham aweighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.Leviticus 19:36
36 bYou shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: ▼ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 45:9-14
9“Thus says the Lord God: dEnough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease eyour evictions of my people, declares the Lord God.10 f“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. ▼ 11The ephah and the bath shall be hof the same measure, ithe bath containing one tenth of a homer, ▼
▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 kThe shekel shall be twenty gerahs; ▼ twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. ▼▼A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
13 n“This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 14and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor ▼
▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
(the cor, like the homer, contains pten baths). ▼▼See Vulgate; Hebrew (ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer)
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