OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

Ezra 8:27

World English Bible Updated

twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

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Ezra 8:27 in context

Ezra 8:24–30

24

Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

25

and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

26

I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold,

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twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

28

I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

29

Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the LORD’s house.”

30

So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

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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.

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