Discovery BoxEzekiel 45:9-17 
Context45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, 1 declares the sovereign Lord. 45:10 You must use just balances, 2 a just dry measure (an ephah), 3 and a just liquid measure (a bath). 4 45:11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, 5 and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure. 45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels 6 will be a mina for you.
45:13 “‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley, 45:14 and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer); 45:15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the sovereign Lord. 45:16 All the people of the land will contribute 7 to this offering for the prince of Israel. 45:17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.
1 sn Evictions of the less fortunate by the powerful are described in 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Jer 22:1-5, 13-17; Ezek 22:25.
2 sn Previous legislation regarding this practice may be found in Lev 19:35-36; Deut 25:13-16; Mic 6:10-12.
3 tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.
4 tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.
5 sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
6 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”
7 tn Heb “will be.”
