Verse 6
"And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land."
"This is the ephah that goeth forth ..." The ephah was an indefinite measure in common use, resembling a bushel, more or less, in size and capacity. Of the dozen or more commentaries and dictionaries consulted on the size of the ephah, no two of them gave the same answer! "The size is not definitely known, the size being estimated at from 21.26 quarts to 40.62 quarts (Josephus)."[19] For properly understanding the vision, a bushel basket is as good an answer as any.
"This is their appearance in the land ..." Does this description refer to the ephah, or to the ephah and what was in it; or does it refer to the ephah being borne into a distant country, or to the people represented by it before the departure? We have found no way to answer this precisely.
Something in it, however, was descriptive of certain things to which Zechariah called attention.
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