MISCKLLANY 803 



N- B- The foregoing table will explain many texts in the Bible. Take, for instance, Isa. v, 10. 

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

 This curse upon the covetous man was, that 10 acres of vines should produce only 7 gallons of wine, 

 i. e., one acre .-hould yield less than 3 quarts; and that 32 pecks of seed should only bring a crop of 

 3 pecks, or, in other words, that the harvest reaped should produce but one-tenth of the seed .sown. 



TIMI: 



The \atural Day was from sun-rise to sun-set. 

 The \atural Night was from sun-set to sun-rive. 



The Civil Day was from sun-set one evening to sun-set the next; for, "the Evening and the 

 Morning were the first day." 



NU;HT (Ancient). 



First Watch Lam. ii, 19), till midnight. 

 Middle Watch * Judg. vii, 19), till :* A M. 

 M. Tiling Watcb (Exod. xiv, 24), till A. M. 



NIGKT (Xew Testament). 



Fir-t Watch, evening = 6 to 9 P. M. 



nd Watch, midnight = 9 to 12 P. M. 



Third Watch, cock-crow = 12 to 3 A. M. 



Fourth Watch, morning = 3 to 6 A. M 



DAY (Ancient). 

 Morning till about 10 A. M 

 Heat of day till about 2 P. M. 

 Cool of day till about 6 P. M. 



DAY (Xew Testament). 

 Third hour = 6 to 0A.M. 

 Sixth hour = 9 to 12 midday. 

 Ninth hour = 12 to 3 P. M 

 Twelfth hour = 3 to 6 P. M. 



JEWISH MOM.Y 

 With its value in English and American money; the American dollar being taken as equal t 



Jewish. English. Americ n. 



N.l' \ -' feel would probably purchase nearly ten time- a- much a- the same nominal amount 

 \villno\v. Kemember that one l\<nnun penny , s a good day's wages for a laborer. 



The Hebrew nuimli. according to 1 Kin^s x. 17. compared with" 2 Chron. ix. Hi. contained 100 

 shek' _-h according to one interpretation of I'./.rk. xiv. 12. it contained tin. bul more prob- 



ably .">0. The passage reads thus: Twenty shekels, five and twenty shekel-, fifteen -hekrl- shall 

 Mir maneh." This is variously interpreted : i 1 ) 20 -f 25 + 15 = 60. (2 -O. _'.-,. 1.", are ditTerent 

 in L'old. silver, and copjer. bearini: the same name. It is well to remark the meaning of these 

 name-: Shekel simply, wriyht: Bekali split, i. e.. the shekel divided into lu : (J.-rah a grain . 

 as in our wricht-. a crain and a Imrli u-mrn. the original standard wi-igln : Maneh 

 equivalent t..7rr/*///. a s|H'cific sum: Kikkar = a round mass of nieial. i. e., a \\emht <>r 

 ll.-l.p-w name- ,,i w.-i-rht- an. I rojn* are not found in the Ne\\ Te.-tament : mna in Luke xix. 13, is 

 though I>08sibly identical with the Hebrew 



i;'M \\ MONEY 



Roman. English American. 



./ 

 A " farthing," v nearly . ]. , - 



rthiim." as in I <in,,,t> .-.,; M." x 29 nearly ."> 1 



A "penm /- = 16 CUM> (Matt. \\ii. 19) = m-arlv - 17 



[The |{oman MMertius = 2J aiwc-s iiiio.l in the Mible ] 



N. B. Hrrr 



Naati li:i of r,.(MM) pier-es ,sh,.k. : amouMt'd to more than 10.000 = 



48.000 doll 



The I' ho had!.. 000,000=14,400,000 



dull- In- fe||<.\v-^T\ ant IIHI ; \(\,l \~ ,/,.//, 



Judas sold our I Hi ,l,,ll,ir.. '., , legal value 



of a slave, if he were killed by a K. 



Joseph was sold by his brethren i..r L'O pi, =11 doll - 



