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A ''log'' (Hebrew לוג or וג, Romanized ''lōḡ'') is a biblical and

halakhic ''Halakha'' ( ; , ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. ''Halakha'' is based on biblical commandments (''mitzv ...

unit of liquid

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. The word ''log'' occurs in the Bible, in Lev. 14:10, 15, 21 which prescribes the

korban In Judaism, the (), also spelled or , is any of a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah. The plural form is , , or . The term primarily refers to sacrificial offerings given from humans to God for the pur ...

(''asham'', "guilt-offering") of a poor '' metzorah'': : :And if he be poor, and his means suffice not, then he shall take one he-lamb for a guilt-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil;

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The Talmud, citing the

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of an extra scriptural word ''ZeH'' "this," which equals twelve (seven plus five), explains that one

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is twelve log: :: :The Gemara elaborates: Now, one hin is twelve log, as it is written: “And of olive oil a hin” (Exodus 30:24), and it is written afterward in the same verse: “Sacred anointing oil, this 'zeh''shall be for Me, throughout your generations.” The numerical value ematriaof zeh is twelve. The Mishnah immediately preceding, which this Gemara comes to explain, states that a half-hin is six log. Thus a hin is twelve log. A list of conversions follows: * 1 ''hin'' (הִין ''hîn'') = 12 ''logs'' * 1 ''log'' = 6 ''

Beitzah Beitza () or Bei'a (Aramaic: ביעה) (literally "egg", named after the first word) is a tractate in ''Seder'' ''Mo'ed'', dealing with the laws of Yom Tov (holidays). As such, in medieval commentaries on the Talmud, the text is sometimes refer ...

'' (egg) The log is believed to have been equal to a little over ; thus, a ''hin'' was a little over .

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