Ezekiel 45:12

When you weigh things, you must use weights that everyone accepts as being correct [MTY].’”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

In Context

11The baskets for measuring dry things and containers for measuring liquids must be the same size; each must hold 175 quarts/liters.

13“ ‘You must present to the king one bushel of wheat or barley for every 60 that you harvest.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:13Every man who is counted must pay to me ◄0.2 ounces/5.7 grams► of silver. They must use the official standard when they weigh the silver.

Leviticus 27:25All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 45:10-13

Rules of Justice. ( b. c. 574.) 9 Thus saith the Lord God ; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God . 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty… Read the whole commentary →

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