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The Lord God proclaims: Enough, princes of Israel! Turn aside from violence and oppression. Establish justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people! This is what the Lord God says: 10 You must use fair scales, a fair ephah,[a] and a fair bath.[b] 11 The ephah and the bath must be the same size. Both should be calibrated to the homer: each will contain one-tenth of a homer.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:10 One ephah is approximately twenty quarts of grain.
  2. Ezekiel 45:10 One bath is approximately twenty quarts of liquid.

Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

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