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12 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.[a] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.[b]

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13 “You must give this tax to the prince: one bushel of wheat or barley for every 60[c] you harvest, 14 one percent of your olive oil,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 45:12a The shekel weighs about 0.4 ounces or 11 grams.
  2. 45:12b Elsewhere the mina is equated to 50 shekels.
  3. 45:13 Hebrew 1⁄6 of an ephah from each homer of wheat and 1⁄6 of an ephah from each homer of barley.
  4. 45:14 Hebrew the portion of oil, measured by the bath, is 1⁄10 of a bath from each cor, which consists of 10 baths or 1 homer, for 10 baths are equivalent to a homer.

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