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Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Measure. Hebrew “epha,” containing ten gomors, each of which was sufficient for the daily maintenance of a man; so that Gedeon brought as much as would have sufficed for ten men. Abraham presented no more before the three angels, Genesis 19:6. The magnificence of the ancients consisted rather in producing great abundance, than in multiplying dishes.—Broth. Syr. and Arab. translate, “a good (old) wine.”
1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
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