Now forasmuch as oil was always offered with the meat-offering, here is direction what quantity shall be used at each offering. The bath of oil; which contained about twenty-four gallons, or very near it. The tenth part; so the quantity of oil by this account will be two gallons, three pints, and a little more. The cor; which is here said to be an homer: these were two names of one and the same measure, and described by the baths it contained.

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