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12 The shekel[a] shall be twenty gerahs.[b] Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[c]

13 This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah[d] of a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah[e] of a homer of barley. 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil that is the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth part of a bath[f] out of the kor,[g] which is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel weighed about ⅖ ounce, or 12 grams.
  2. Ezekiel 45:12 Weighs 1߼20 of a shekel.
  3. Ezekiel 45:12 Sixty shekels equals about 1½ pounds, or 690 grams. The common mina was 50 shekels.
  4. Ezekiel 45:13 Likely about 6 pounds, or 2.7 kilograms.
  5. Ezekiel 45:13 Likely about 5 pounds, or 2.3 kilograms.
  6. Ezekiel 45:14 About 2½ quarts, or 2.2 liters.
  7. Ezekiel 45:14 Equals a homer in liquid measure, 60 gallons or 220 liters.