Ezekiel 45:10

10 You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah^[a] and an accurate bath.^[b]

Ezekiel 45:10 in Other Translations

10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

10 "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

10 Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.

10 Use honest scales - honest weights and honest measures.

10 "You must have honest balances, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure.

Ezekiel 45:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have just balances
That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of the civil magistrate to look after: and a just ephah, and a just bath;
and not make the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit, as some did, ( Amos 8:5 ) the "ephah" was a measure for dry things, as wheat, barley and the "bath" for liquid things, as wine oil as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; see ( Leviticus 19:35 Leviticus 19:36 ) .

Ezekiel 45:10 In-Context

8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.

9 “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign LORD.

10 You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath.

11 The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath containing a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer is to be the standard measure for both.

12 The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 25:15; S Proverbs 11:1; Amos 8:4-6; Micah 6:10-11
• 2. S Leviticus 19:36

Footnotes

• [a]. An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 bushel or about 22 liters.
• [b]. A bath was a liquid measure equaling about 6 gallons or about 22 liters.