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Ezra 7:22

Ezra 7:22

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Unto one hundred talents of silver,.... Which amounted to 35,300 pounds sterling; these, according to Jarchi, were to buy the offerings or sacrifices with:and an hundred measures of wheat; or corn, the same measure with the homer, each of which held ten ephahs, or seventy five wine gallons, five pints, and upwards; these, according to the same writer, were for meat offerings, made of fine flour, or rather bread offerings, as they may be called:and to an hundred baths of wine; which was the same measure in liquids as the ephah in things dry, a tenth part of the cor or homer, and held seven wine gallons, five pints, and upwards ; these were for the drink offerings:and to an hundred baths of oil; the same measure as before; these were to mix in the meat offerings:and salt without prescribing how much; because it was used in all offerings, and was cheap, and therefore no measure is fixed, but as much as was wanting was to be given, see Le 2:1.

See Cumberland's Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p.

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