2 Nephi 15:10

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

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10 Acres, 1 Bath, a Homer, an Ephah

The lands of the wealthy will become extremely unproductive. Ten acres represents the amount of land that ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day, or the equivalent of five acres of land by our modern measurement. From this acreage, the yield will be only one bath (four to eight gallons of wine). One homer of seed (about six bushels) will yield only an ephah of produce (four to six gallons of dry measure).

Hoyt WW. Brewster, Jr., Isaiah Plain and Simple [salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1995], 47

The land would become unproductive, so that five acres of a vineyard would produce only one bath (eight gallons) of wine, and a homer (six bushels) of seed, would yield only an ephah (four gallons) of grain. Isaiah’s prognosis in these passages accurately describes the pitiful circumstances the remnant of Israel faced after the Babylonian and Assyrian deportations.

Terry B. Ball, Voices of Old Testament Prophets: The 26th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium [salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1997], 54