sentence1: Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
sentence2: عِنْدَمَا كَانَ يُقْبِلُ أَحَدٌ عَلَى كَوْمَةِ حُبُوبٍ ظَنّاً مِنْهُ أَنَّ الأَرْضَ قَدْ غَلَّتْ عِشْرِينَ مِكْيَالاً، يَجِدُ أَنَّهَا لَمْ تُغِلَّ سِوَى عَشَرَةٍ فَقَطْ. وَحِينَ يَدْنُو مِنَ الْمِعْصَرَةِ لِيَغْرُفَ مِلْءَ خَمْسِينَ وِعَاءً، لاَ يَجِدُ إِلاَّ عِشْرِينَ.