Exodus 30:24
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500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
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With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.