KJV King James Version
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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Isaiah 5:10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
WEB World English Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
ASV American Standard Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 5
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Leviticus 26:26[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.Haggai 2:16Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.Haggai 1:9-11Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.Joel 1:17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.Ezekiel 45:10-11Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.
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