one-fifth

The Hebrew in Leviticus 6:5 that is translated as “one-fifth” in English was difficult to translate in a West African language that had no immediately corresponding concept of fraction, percentage or the like. So the translation that was used was: “Take the full (monetary) value, divide it into five equal piles, and add one more pile.” (See this blog entry )

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