10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
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Verse 10. Measure. Hebrew “both.”—Thirty. Hebrew “a chomer shall yield an epha.”
literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons
1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels
1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.
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