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10 (A)“Everyone must use honest weights and measures:

11 “The ephah for dry measure is to be equal to the bath for liquid measure. The standard is the homer.[a] The resulting measures are as follows:

1 homer = 10 ephahs = 10 baths

12 “Your weights are to be as follows:

20 gerahs = 1 shekel[b]
60 shekels = 1 mina

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:11 A unit of dry or liquid measure, about 5 bushels or 175 quarts; so an ephah or a bath would be about ½ bushel or 17.5 quarts.
  2. Ezekiel 45:12 In Ezekiel's time this unit of weight was about 0.4 ounce or 11.4 grams.

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