The Egyptians<n id="1" /> piled them in countless heaps,<n id="2" /> and the land stank.

The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer,<n id="1" /> and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.

Samson then said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;With the jawbone of a donkeyp> <p class="poetry">I have left them in heaps;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">with the jawbone of a donkeyp> <p class="poetry">I have struck down a thousand men!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;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,

<p class="poetry">Your maxims<n id="1" /> are proverbs of ashes;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your defenses<n id="3" /> are defenses of clay.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He has flung me into the mud,p> <p class="poetry">and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.p>

<p class="poetry">The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its features<n id="2" /> are dyed<n id="3" /> like a garment.p>

<p class="poetry">But you trample on the sea with your horses,p> <p class="poetry">on the surging, raging waters.<n id="1" />p>

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);

<p class="poetry">Remember that you have made me as with<n id="1" /> the clay;p> <p class="poetry">will<n id="2" /> you return me to dust?p>

<p class="poetry">If he piles up silver like dustp> <p class="poetry">and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,p>

<p class="poetry">Look, I am just like you in relation to God;p> <p class="poetry">I too have been molded<n id="1" /> from clay.p>

<p class="poetry">how much more to those who live in houses of clay,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose foundation is in the dust,p> <p class="poetry">who are crushed<n id="2" /> like<n id="3" /> a moth?p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, a large vineyard<n id="1" /> will produce just a few gallons,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and enough seed to yield several bushels<n id="3" /> will produce less than a bushel.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>, you are our father.p> <p class="poetry">We are the clay, and you are our potter;p> <p class="poetry">we are all the product of your labor.<n id="2" />p>

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley<n id="1" /> to purchase her.

<p class="poetry">Draw yourselves water for a siege!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Strengthen your fortifications!p> <p class="poetry">Trample the mud<n id="2" /> and tread the clay!p> <p class="poetry">Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!<n id="3" />p>

Then they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (They had brick instead of stone and tar<n id="3" /> instead of mortar.)<n id="4" />

They made their lives bitter<n id="1" /> by<n id="2" /> hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service<n id="3" /> in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If a man consecrates to the <sc>Lordsc> some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it,<n id="1" /> a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.<n id="2" />