12 The shekel[a] will weigh twenty gerahs.(A) Your mina will equal sixty shekels.

The People’s Contribution to the Sacrifices

13 “This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts[b] from six bushels[c] of wheat and[d] three quarts from six bushels of barley. 14 The quota of oil in liquid measures[e] will be one percent of every[f] cor. The cor equals ten liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure,[g] since ten liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:12 A shekel is about two-fifths of an ounce of silver
  2. 45:13 Lit One-sixth of an ephah
  3. 45:13 Lit a homer
  4. 45:13 LXX, Vg; MT reads and you are to give
  5. 45:14 Lit oil, the bath, the oil
  6. 45:14 Lit be a tenth of the bath from the
  7. 45:14 Lit 10 baths, a homer

12 The shekel[a] is to consist of twenty gerahs.(A) 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. 14 The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath[e] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel weighed about 2/5 ounce or about 12 grams.
  2. 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.
  3. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
  4. Ezekiel 45:13 That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
  5. Ezekiel 45:14 That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters