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1 Kings 5:25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

25 while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat to provide for his household, and twenty kors[a] of hand-pressed oil. Solomon gave Hiram all this every year.

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  1. 5:25 Twenty kors: this means about two thousand gallons of the finest olive oil available, hand-pressed rather than produced in large olive presses, so that no debris (such as crushed olive pits, powder from the grinding stones) would contaminate the oil. Also see note on 2 Chr 2:9.
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