13“ ‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms from each homer of barley.
14The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
15Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign LORD .
16All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel.
17It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, Or purification offerings; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25 grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.
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