Ezekiel 45:11-13
Contemporary English Version
11 The ephah will be the standard dry measure, and the bath will be the standard liquid measure. Their size will be based on the homer, which will equal ten ephahs or ten baths.[a]
12 The standard unit of weight will be the shekel.[b] One shekel will equal 20 gerahs, and 60 shekels will equal one mina.
13 Leaders of Israel, the people must bring you one sixtieth of their grain harvests as offerings to me.
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Ezekiel 45:11-13
New International Version
11 The ephah(A) and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both. 12 The shekel[a] is to consist of twenty gerahs.(B) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.[b]
13 “‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah[c] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah[d] from each homer of barley.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.
- Ezekiel 45:12 That is, 60 shekels; the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels were about 1 1/2 pounds or about 690 grams.
- Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
- Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
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