Verse | Phrase | Explanation | |
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Mat 13:33 | three measures of flour | Say "a large amount of flour" or use a term that your culture uses for measuring large amounts of flour. | |
Luk 16:6 | A hundred baths of olive oil | This was about 3,000 liters of olive oil. | |
Luk 16:7 | A hundred cors of wheat | You may convert this to a modern measure. Alternate Translation: "twenty thousand liters of wheat" or "a thousand baskets of wheat" | |
Jhn 2:6 | two to three metretes | You may convert this to a modern measure. Alternate Translation: "75 to 115 liters" | |
Rev 6:6 | A choenix of wheat ... three choenices of barley | a "choenix" was a specific measure that was about one liter. The plural of "choenix" is "choenices." Alternate Translation: "one liter of wheat ... three liters of barley" or "one bowl of wheat ... three bowls of barley" |