Measures & money
Ephah
A unit of volume for grain or flour, distinct from a weight such as the shekel.
Also called · epha
What it means
Ezekiel 45 calls for just weights and measures. It gives the ephah the same capacity as the bath used for liquids; each is one tenth of a homer.
Exodus 16 makes an omer one tenth of an ephah. In these passages, the smaller omer and the larger homer are different measures.
How it appears in the Bible
Ruth gleans until evening and beats out the grain she has gathered, obtaining about an ephah of barley. She carries it into the town and shows her mother-in-law what she has gathered.
Translation note
The selected World English Bible retains ephah. A volume of grain does not have the same numerical value in liters and kilograms: its weight also depends on the material being measured.