He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into twenty kilograms of flour until all of it was leavened.’
So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from twenty-two litres of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull, twenty-two litres of flour, and a clay jar of wine. Though the boy was still young, she took him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh.
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my presence so I can eat from her hand.’