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Isaiah 5:10
Isaiah 5:10 is verse 10 of Isaiah chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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.”
Literally ten yoke of vineyard will yield a bath; that is, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day will yield approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters of wine.
Literally and a homer of seed will yield an ephah; that is, a homer of seed (approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters) will yield a tenth of its weight in grain.
King James Version
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
World English Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons
1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels
1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.
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Isaiah 5:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 27:16If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Ezekiel 45:10You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezekiel 45:11The 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.
Joel 1:17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1:10Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
Haggai 1:11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”