The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.

The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.

Samson then said, “With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!”

“‘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,

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.

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);

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

“‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.