Berean Standard Bible

Ezekiel 45:9-17

9For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

10You must use honest scales, a just ephah,1 and a just bath.2

11The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.3

12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs.4 Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.5

13This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.6 14The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor7 (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer). 15And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

16All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. 17And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,8 grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah is a dry measure of approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters. ↩
2. Ezekiel 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure of approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters. ↩
3. Ezekiel 45:11 A homer was a dry measure of approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters; also in verses 13 and 14. ↩
4. Ezekiel 45:12 20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams). ↩
5. Ezekiel 45:12 That is, 60 shekels total; elsewhere, the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels weighed approximately 1.5 pounds or 683.8 grams. ↩
6. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, a sixtieth of the harvest of wheat and of barley; a sixth of an ephah was approximately 3.3 dry quarts or 3.7 liters. ↩
7. Ezekiel 45:14 That is, one percent of one’s oil; a tenth of a bath was approximately 2.3 quarts or 2.2 liters. ↩
8. Ezekiel 45:17 Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23, and 25 ↩

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