Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts

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  1. It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
  2. He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
  3. …up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.
  4. For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
  5. You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
  6. The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
  7. The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).