Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Wheat. Hebrew adds, “beaten.”—Barley and wine are not specified 3 Kennicott. 5:11. Calmet.—Measures, like the Roman amphora, contained 960 ozs. A. Lapide—Hebrew has, “batim,” in both places; but 3 Kennicott. we find, “twenty cores of oil.” The satum, “measure,” was only one-third of the bath or epha. Calmet.
1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels, so 20,000 cors of wheat would weigh about 545 metric tons
1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 20,000 baths of barley would weigh about 262 metric tons.