Ezekiel 45:9-17

The Prince’s Dues and Obligations

The oppressive exactions of the former rulers were to be unknown in the restored Israel. Weights and measures were to be just and correct. The prince was to receive from the people a sixtieth of their wheat and barley, a hundredth part of their oil, and one in two hundred of their flocks. Out of these supplies the prince was to provide all the regular sacrifices for the Temple.

10. The ephah (dry measure) and the bath (liquid measure) were each the tenth of an homer.

12. Twenty shekels.. maneh] read with LXX, ’five (shekels) shall be five, and ten shekels ten, and fifty shekels shall be your maneh’. A shekel was 20 gerahs, and a maneh 50 shekels or 1,000 gerahs.

13. 1 in 60: see Ezekiel 45:10.

14. Cor] equivalent to ’homer’. The proportion is 1 in 100.