Possible Clues:

• Hebrew measure for dry goods
• Hebrew measure equal to about a bushel
• Some dry goods, guarded by three Pharisees
• How Israelis used to measure a messy heap?
• Homer had several. Elephant has one
• Heap makes a bushel
• Record had been cut short for measure for dry goods
• Roughly a bushel in elephant's stomach
• Hebrew measure brought in by the Pharisees
• Hebrew measure used by the Pharaohs