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1 Kings 4:22–23

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4:22Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed12 thirty cors13 of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal, 4:23ten calves fattened in the stall,14 twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”
  2. 13 As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
  3. 14 The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal, ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Solomon’s provisions for one day were 180 bushels of fine flour and 360 bushels of meal, ten fattened cattle, twenty range cattle, and a hundred sheep and goats, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,

NLTNew Living Translation

The daily food requirements for Solomon’s palace were 150 bushels of choice flour and 300 bushels of meal; also 10 oxen from the fattening pens, 20 pasture-fed cattle, 100 sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roe deer, and choice poultry.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour; ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.