How Was Pontius Pilate's Wife Connected to Christ? -

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Money and weight in Biblical times

 Measurements can be divided into weight (often also used for money), distance, dry capacity, and liquid capacity. Here is a list of some biblical measurements and their approximate US and Metric equivalents.

Weight:

Talent (60 minas) is 75 pounds or 34 kilograms.

Mina (50 shekels) is 1.25 pounds or .6 kilograms (600 grams).

Shekel (2 bekas) is 2/5 of an ounce or 11.5 grams.

Pim (2/3 shekel) is 1/4 of an ounce or 7.6 grams.

Beka (10 gerahs) is 1/5 of an ounce or 5.7 grams.

Gerah is 1/50 of an ounce or .6 grams (600 milligrams).

Money:

Shekel is a silver Hebrew coin that is 11.5 grams of silver.

Gerah is a silver Hebrew coin that is .6 grams of silver and is sometimes referred to as ma'ah meaning "money."

Prutah is a copper Hebrew coin that is .22 grams of copper.

A talent of gold is 3000 silver shekels.

Silver dinar is a silver Roman coin that is 4.26 grams of silver and is called a Zuz in Hebrew. The silver dinar was equal to one day's wages.

Mina is a silver Roman coin that is 425 grams of silver (or 100 Zuz/Dinarii).

Gold dinar is a gold Roman coin that is 8 grams of gold.

Issar is a copper Roman coin that is .177 grams of copper.

Pundion is a copper Roman coin that is .349 grams of copper.

Distance:

Cubit is 18 inches or .5 meters.

Span is 9 inches or 23 centimeters.

Handbreadth is 3 inches or 8 centimeters.

Finger is 3/4 of an inch or 1.8 centimeters.

Yoke is the amount of land a pair of yoked oxen could plow in a single day or about 1/3 of an acre.

Dry Capacity:

Homer (or Cor) (10 ephahs) comes from the Hebrew word for donkey or ass, so this measurement was approximately one donkey-load or a little over 5 bushels (200 quarts) or 220 liters.

Lethek (5 ephahs) is 2.7 bushels or 110 liters.

Ephah (10 omers) is 3/5 of a bushel or 22 liters.

Seah (1/3 ephah) is 7 quarts or 7.3 liters.

Omer (1/10 ephah) is 2 quarts or 2 liters.

Cab (1/18 ephah) is 1 quart or 1 liter.

Liquid Capacity:

Bath is the liquid equivalent of 1 Ephah or 5.5 gallons or 22 liters.

Hin (1/6 bath) is 1 gallon (4 quarts) or 4 liters.

Log (1/72 bath) is 1/3 of a quart (11 ounces) or .3 liter.

 Apocrypha: – Why Isn’t it in the Bible: Catholics will tell you, “You Protestants are missing part of the Bible. We have the rest of it.” This can throw people off, but it no longer has to. These false Catholic additions to the Bible are commonly called the Apocrypha or sometimes the Deuterocanonical books. The Apocrypha is a collection of uninspired, spurious books written by various individuals. The Catholic religion considers these books as scripture just like a Bible believer believes that our 66 books are the word of God, e.g. (Genesis to Revelation).

At the Council of Trent in 1546, the Roman Catholic religion pronounced the following apocryphal books sacred. (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees, Additions to Ester and Daniel). They asserted that the apocryphal books together with unwritten tradition are of God and are to be received and venerated as the Word of God. So now you have the Bible, the Apocrypha, and Catholic Tradition as co-equal sources of truth for the Catholic.

In reality, the Bible is the last source of truth for Catholics. Catholic doctrine comes primarily from tradition stuck together with a few Bible names. In the reading of Catholic materials, you will find notes like this: “You have to keep the Bible in perspective.” Catholics do not believe that the Bible is God’s complete revelation for man. Go to www.jesus-is-lord.com/apocryph.htm for more on this subject.