OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 69

Ezra 2:69

World English Bible Updated

They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

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Ezra 2:66–70

66

Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

67

their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.

68

Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.

69
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They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

70

So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

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  1. a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.
  2. A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 5,000 minas is about 3 metric tons.

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