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Isaiah 5:10

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For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

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EXPLANATION

Verse 10. Measure. Hebrew “both.”—Thirty. Hebrew “a chomer shall yield an epha.”

EXPLANATION

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.

EXPLANATION

1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons

EXPLANATION

1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels

EXPLANATION

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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