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Ezekiel 45:11

in Ezekiel 45

The 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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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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This verse in Ezekiel 45

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Chapter 45, verses 10 and following) 'A fair balance and a fair ephah and a fair bath shall be for you. The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth part of a homer, and the ephah a tenth part of a homer: their measure shall be according to the homer. Now a shekel has twenty obols. Furthermore, twenty shekels, and twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels make a mina.'

This site's exposition

You must use honest scales

on Ezekiel 45:10-12

The command for “honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath” sets one standard for dry and liquid measure, a tenth of a homer. It fixes “twenty gerahs” to the shekel. Clarke reads the ruling against the habit of one weight for buying and a lighter one for selling.

This site's exposition

the homer will be the standard measure for both

The ephah measured grain and the bath measured liquids, and tying both to the homer gave them one reference. Barnes estimates the homer at about 75 gallons. The law had already demanded honest measures in Leviticus 19:36 and Deuteronomy 25:13 to 15.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

An omer was but the tenth part of an ephah ( Exod. xvi. 36 ) and the one hundredth part of a chomer, or homer, and contained about six pints. The shekel is here settled (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The ephah was in use for dry measure, the bath for liquid. The homer seems to have contained about 75 gallons (see Exo 29:40, note; Lev 19:36, note). After the homer - i. e., according to the standard of the homer.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הָאֵיפָ֣הthe ephah

    haeifahH374 →40 times

  • וְהַבַּ֗תand the bath

    vehabatH1324 →13 times

  • תֹּ֤כֶןmeasurement

    tokhenH8506 →

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • יִֽהְיֶ֔הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לָשֵׂ֕את[is] to carry

    lasetH5375 →656 times

  • מַעְשַׂ֥ר[the] tenth part of

    ma'sarH4643 →

  • הַחֹ֖מֶרthe homer

    hachomerH2563 →31 times

  • הַבָּ֑תthe bath

    habatH1324 →13 times

  • וַעֲשִׂירִ֤תand [the] tenth [part] of

    vaasiritH6224 →29 times

  • הַחֹ֙מֶר֙the homer

    hachomerH2563 →31 times

  • הָֽאֵיפָ֔הthe ephah

    haeifahH374 →40 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַחֹ֖מֶרthe homer

    hachomerH2563 →31 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • מַתְכֻּנְתּֽוֹ׃measurement its

    matkuntoH4971 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 5:10

    For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:26

      When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

    • Haggai 2:16

      from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

    • Haggai 1:6

      You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into…

    • Haggai 1:9–11

      You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you…

    • Leviticus 27:16

      If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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