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Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts 1 Kings 7:26, 38

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths. / He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

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Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts Ezra 7:22

up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.

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Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

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Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts Ezekiel 45:10, 11, 14

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath. / The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both. / The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

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