23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price 1 and weighed 2 out for him 3 the price 4 that Ephron had quoted 5 in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. 6
45:9 “‘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, 9 declares the sovereign Lord. 45:10 You must use just balances, 10 a just dry measure (an ephah), 11 and a just liquid measure (a bath). 12 45:11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, 13 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 14 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);
1 tn Heb “listened to Ephron.”
2 tn Heb “and Abraham weighed out.”
3 tn Heb “to Ephron.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “silver.”
5 tn Heb “that he had spoken.” The referent (Ephron) has been specified here in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “passing for the merchant.” The final clause affirms that the measurement of silver was according to the standards used by the merchants of the time.
7 tn Heb “balances of righteousness,” and so throughout this sentence.
8 sn An ephah is a dry measure which measures about four gallons, or perhaps one third of a bushel, while a hin is a liquid measure of about 3.6 liters (= approximately 1 quart).
9 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.
10 sn Previous legislation regarding this practice may be found in Lev 19:35-36; Deut 25:13-16; Mic 6:10-12.
11 tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.
12 tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.
13 sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.
14 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”