OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 7:22

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up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 22. Salt was used in all the sacrifices. Leviticus 2:13. In 3 Esd. no mention is made of oil or salt; but we read, “and all other things in abundance.”

EXPLANATION

A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

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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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1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.

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