Isaiah 5:10 — “For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath of wine,
And a homer (six… — AMP | maBible
Read Isaiah 5:10 (Amplified Bible) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Isaiah 5.10, Isaiah 5v10, Es. 5:10. “For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath of wine,
And a homer (six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”
Other reference formats: Isaiah 5.10, Isaiah 5v10, Es. 5:10.
10 “For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath of wine,
And a homer (six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”
Notes and references
Lit teams of oxen, referring to the area of land that a team of oxen can plow in one day.
This is only a very rough approximation. The basic Hebrew unit of volume was an egg, which varied greatly, and the estimation was significantly larger than an ordinary chicken egg. A bath was set at 432 eggs—six to eight gallons.
The actual Hebrew measure was the volume of 4,320 eggs, and an ephah (like a bath, only a dry measure) was 432 eggs.