And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
And I said, What is it?.... After he had lifted up his eyes and seen it, he desires to know both what it was, and what was the meaning of it:
and he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth; which…
Barnes' Notes
This is the ephah that goeth forth - Theodoret: “We too are taught by this, that the Lord of all administers all things in weight and measure. So, foretelling to Abraham that his seed should be a…
Adam Clarke
This is an ephah that goeth forth - This, among the Jews, was the ordinary measure of grain. The woman in the ephah is supposed to represent Judea, which shall be visited for its sins; the talent of…
The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and…
Cambridge Bible
an ephah Lit. the ephah. Though it seems impossible to fix accurately the size of the Hebrew ephah (Dict. of Bible, Weights and Measures), there can be no doubt that it was not large enough to contain…