Translations
Modern
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
Traditional
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Literal
And behold, to the wood cutters cutting the trees, to your servants, I will give ground wheat, twenty thousand cors, and barley, twenty thousand cors, and wine, twenty thousand baths, and oil, twenty thousand baths.”
Latin
Præterea operariis qui cæsuri sunt ligna, servis tuis, dabo in cibaria tritici coros viginti millia, et hordei coros totidem, et vini viginti millia metretas, olei quoque sata viginti millia.
Original
Hebrew
English
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
Notes
Theme notes and profiles
Measurements
- 20,000 cors of ground wheat: About 124,800 bu (4.4M l)
- 20,000 baths of wine: About 116,000 gal (440,000 l)
Parallels
Glossary
Agriculture Blue Chronicles, Books of First and Second Genealogy Huram Lebanon Oak Tax, Taxation Tyre
Topics
Barley: Traffic In Cor: Rendered Measure In Hiram: Called Huram, King of Tyre: Helps Solomon in Building the Temple Measure: A Bath, About Eight Gallons and a Half Measure: A Cor, Equal to One Homer or Ten Ephahs, Equal to About Eleven and One-Ninth Bushels Servant: Hired in Kind the First Temple: Solomon: Contracted with Hiram for Wood, Stone, and Labour Trees were Cut Down for Building Tyre: Kingdom of Men and Materials Sent From, to Solomon, for the Erection of the Temple and his Castles