In the parable of the shrewd manager, one debtor owes 'a hundred measures of wheat' (Luke 16:7). The term is a Hebrew loanword for a large dry measure, the kor, equivalent to about 10-12 bushels or roughly 370 liters. This represents a substantial agricultural debt—the produce of multiple acres. The manager's reduction of the debt by twenty measures would be significant, though less dramatic than the fifty-percent reduction of the oil debt. Ancient commerce required these standardized measures.