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.
Note 100 talents is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver.
Note 100 cors is approximately 624 bushels or 22,000 liters (probably about 19.2 tons or 17.4 metric tons of wheat).
Note 100 baths is approximately 580 gallons or 2,200 liters of wine.
Note Or 100 baths of oil; that is, approximately 580 gallons or 2,200 liters
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Note measures: Chaldee, cors
up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Note A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces
Note 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels.
Note 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.
unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- measures
- Chal. cors.
- Luke 16:7
- baths of wine
- Ezekiel 45:14; Luke 16:6
- salt
- Leviticus 2:13