Ezekiel 45:9-12

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, 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.

[45:9]  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.

[45:10]  ² sn Previous legislation regarding this practice may be found in Lev 19:35-36; Deut 25:13-16; Mic 6:10-12.

[45:10]  ³ tn Heb “ephah,” which was 1/2 bushel.

[45:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “bath,” a liquid measure, was 5 1/2 gallons.

[45:11]  ⁵ sn The homer was about 5 bushels as a dry measure and 55 gallons as a liquid measure.

[45:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”