Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”

King James Version

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

Holman Bible

For a ten-acre vineyard will yield
only six gallons,
and 10 bushels of seed will yield
only one bushel.

International Standard Version

For ten acres of vineyard will produce only one bath, and one omer of seed will produce only one ephah."

A Conservative Version

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.

American Standard Version

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Amplified


“For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath of wine,
And a homer (six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”

Bible in Basic English

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

Darby Translation

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

Julia Smith Translation

For ten measures of a vineyard shall make one bath, and the seed of an omer shall make an ephah.

King James 2000

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and [the] seed of a homer will yield an ephah.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.

NET Bible

Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."

New Heart English Bible

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."

The Emphasized Bible

For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield one bath, - And the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah,

Webster

Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

World English Bible

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."

Youngs Literal Translation

For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ten
עשׂרה עשׂר 
`eser 
Usage: 174

צמד 
Tsemed 
Usage: 15

כּרם 
Kerem 
Usage: 93

one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 13

and the seed
זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

of an homer
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

Context Readings

Woes On The Wicked

9 With my own ears I heard Jehovah of Hosts say: Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them. 10 “For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”
11 How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.

Leviticus 27:16

If a person gives part of a field to Jehovah as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with two quarts of barley will be worth twenty ounces of silver.

Ezekiel 45:10-11

You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.

Joel 1:17

The seeds rot under dirt clods. The storehouses are desolate. The barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.

Haggai 1:6

You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.

Haggai 1:9-11

You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

Haggai 2:16

You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.

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