Exodus 30:24 · measurement explained
Five hundred shekels of cassia and one hin of oil
The sacred anointing-oil recipe completes its weighed spices with cassia and adds a measured hin of olive oil.
Read the verse first
and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.
World English Bible · engwebp-source-2026-09-12
Modern measurement range
Cassia: five hundred shekels
4.75–7.0 kg
10.47–15.43 lb
Using the shekel by weight estimate. Merchant, sanctuary, royal, regional, and later coin standards differed. The broad range prevents a single 11 g reference estimate from being treated as universal.
Calculate another amount →Olive oil: one hin
3.5–3.8 L
0.92–1.0 US gal · 0.77–0.84 Imp gal
Using the hin estimate. Published tables differ substantially for the hin. This site consistently uses the ESV-style one-sixth-bath system instead of mixing incompatible tables.
Calculate another amount →The verse combines mass and liquid capacity. A conversion should keep those dimensions separate rather than adding them into one misleading total.
What this conversion does—and does not—show
It gives a defensible modern scale for the amount stated in the verse. Ancient standards varied by time and place, so the endpoints are deliberately approximate. A volume is not a food mass, a metal weight is not a modern cash value, and a conversion does not settle a textual, archaeological, or theological debate.
Conversion references: ESV weights and measures ↗, American Bible Society ↗, and Encyclopedia of the Bible ↗. Reference pages accessed October 10, 2026.