Ezekiel 45:11-13

International Children’s Bible

¹¹The dry measure and the liquid measure will be the same: The liquid measure will always be a tenth of a homer.^[a] The ephah will always be a tenth of a homer. The measurement they follow will be the homer. ¹²The shekel^[b] will be worth 20 gerahs. A mina will be worth 60 shekels.

Offerings and Holy Days

¹³“‘This is the gift you will offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

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Footnotes

45:11 homer The Hebrew word means “donkey-load.” It measured about 5 dry bushels or 175 liquid quarts. So an ephah was about one-half bushel. And a bath was about 18 quarts.
45:12 shekel In Ezekiel’s time a shekel weighed about two-fifths of an ounce.