22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
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Verse 22. Measures, (cori.) Each of which contained little less than 300 pints. Calmet.—A corus is equivalent to 30 modii, and would support as many men a day; so that the family of Solomon would contain 2,700 people. A. Lapide. Menochius.—Villalpand calculates 48,600, and Calvisius 54,000.
1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels
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