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TABLE VII.
MEASURES OF CAPACITY.
| Wine Gal. | Pints. | Inch Sol. | |
| Epha, or bath, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 7 | 4 | 15 |
| Chomer, homer in our translation, - - - - - - - - - | 75 | 5 | 7 |
| Seah, one-third of an epha, - - - - - - - - - - - - | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Hin, equal to one sixth of an epha, - - - - - - - - - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Omer, one-tenth of an epha, - - - - - - - - - - - | 0 | 6 | 0.5 |
| Cab, one-eighteenth of an epha, - - - - - - - - - | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Log, one-seventy-second of an epha, - - - - - - - - | 0 | 0 1-2 | 10 |
| Metretes of Syria, (John ii. 6) equal to Cong. Rom. - - - - | 0 | 7 1-8 | 0 |
| Cotyla, Eastern, one-hundredth of an epha, - - - - - - | 0 | 0 1-2 | 3 |
| This cotyla contains just 10 ounces, Avoirdupois, of rain water; omer, 100;
epha, 1000; chomer, 10,000: so by these weights all these measures of capacity
may be expeditiously recovered very near exactness.
Core, a dry measure, containing 8 1-2 bushels. Luke xvi. 7. Choenix, a Grecian measure 1 1-2 pints, daily allowance of corn for a man; a denarius was his wages. | |||
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