Verse 10

For ten acres of vineyard will yield only a single bath of wine, and a homer of seed will produce merely an ephah of grain.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
  • Lev 27:16 : 16 If someone dedicates part of their field as their possession to the LORD, the valuation will be based on how much seed is required to sow it—a homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
  • Ezek 45:10-11 : 10 You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The measurements for the ephah and the bath shall be the same: both will be one-tenth of a homer. The homer will be the standard measure.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.
  • Hag 1:6 : 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and everything the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
  • Hag 2:16 : 16 from that time, when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, only ten were there; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, only twenty were there.