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Isaiah 5:10

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5:10Indeed, a large vineyard22 will produce just a few gallons,23

and enough seed to yield several bushels24 will produce less than a bushel.”25

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  1. 22 Heb “a ten-yoke vineyard.” The Hebrew term צֶמֶד (tsemed, “yoke”) is here a unit of square measure. Apparently a ten-yoke vineyard covered the same amount of land it would take ten teams of oxen to plow in a certain period of time. The exact size is unknown.
  2. 23 Heb “one bath.” A bath was a liquid measure. Estimates of its modern equivalent range from approximately six to twelve gallons.
  3. 24 Heb “a homer.” A homer was a dry measure, the exact size of which is debated. Cf. “ten bushels”; “five bushels.”
  4. 25 Heb “an ephah.” An ephah was a dry measure; there were ten ephahs in a homer. So this verse envisions major crop failure, where only one-tenth of the anticipated harvest is realized.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,

and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine;

a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For a ten-acre vineyard will yield

only six gallons of wine,

and ten bushels of seed will yield

only one bushel of grain.

NLTNew Living Translation

Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine.

Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,

and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.

KJV 1900King James Version

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,

And the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.