1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors16 of wheat as provision for his royal court,17 as well as 20,000 baths18 of pure19 olive oil.20

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16	sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
17	tn Heb “his house.”
18	tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.” sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.
19	tn Or “pressed.”
20	tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat … pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”