Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 10 Holy Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield `but' an ephah.
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For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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For ten acres{Literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons} And a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)-- only one tenth of what was sown.}"
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For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath. The greed of adding field to field will he punished by the curse of barrenness, which God will send upon the laud. Dr. Kay-calculates that ten acres (Roman) of vineyard ought to yield upon the average five hundred baths (or four thousand gallons) instead of one bath (eight gallons). An homer... an ephah. The "ephah" was the tenth-part of a "homer" (Ezekiel 45:11). Corn lands should return only one-tenth part of the seed sown in them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Ten acres.--The disproportion was as great as that which we have seen in recent times in vine countries suffering from the Phylloxera or the oidium, or in the potato failures of Ireland. The bath was equal to seventy-two Roman sextarii (Jos. Ant. viii. 2-9), about seven and a half gallons, and this was to be the whole produce of ten acres, from which an average yield of 500 baths might have been expected. The Hebrew word for "acre" means primarily the ground that could be ploughed in a day by a yoke of oxen.The seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.--Here also there is an all but total failure. The homer was a dry measure of thirty-two pecks, and the ephah was equal to one-tenth of a homer (Ezekiel 45:11; Exodus 16:36). This scanty crop--Ruth's gleanings for a single day (Ruth 2:17)--one-tenth of the seed sown, was to take the place of the "thirtyfold, sixty, and a hundredfold" (Genesis 26:12; Matthew 13:8) of average or prosperous years. . . .
