Ezekiel

Ezekiel 45:9–25

⁹For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

¹⁰You must use honest scales, a just ephah,^h and a just bath.ⁱ

¹¹The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.^j

¹²The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs.^k Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.^l

¹³This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.^m ¹⁴The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each corⁿ (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer). ¹⁵And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

¹⁶All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. ¹⁷And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,^o grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

¹⁸This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary. ¹⁹And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the inner court. ²⁰You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.

²¹On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten. ²²On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. ²³Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering. ²⁴He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.^p ²⁵During the seven days of the feast that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,^q he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.’’’

Footnotes

h 45:10 An ephah is a dry measure of approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters.
i 45:10 A bath was a liquid measure of approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters.
j 45:11 A homer was a dry measure of approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters; also in verses 13 and 14.
k 45:12 20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams).
l 45:12 That is, 60 shekels total; elsewhere, the common mina was 50 shekels. Sixty shekels weighed approximately 1.5 pounds or 683.8 grams.
m 45:13 That is, a sixtieth of the harvest of wheat and of barley; a sixth of an ephah was approximately 3.3 dry quarts or 3.7 liters.
n 45:14 That is, one percent of one’s oil; a tenth of a bath was approximately 2.3 quarts or 2.2 liters.
o 45:17 Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23, and 25
p 45:24 Literally a hin of oil for each ephah; that is, approximately 0.97 gallons or 3.67 liters of oil for each ephah of grain
q 45:25 That is, Sukkot, the autumn feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; also translated as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Shelters and originally called the Feast of Ingathering(see Exodus 23:16|EXO 23:16and Exodus 34:22).