Ezra 8:25-34
25And I weighed out to them the asilver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his bcounselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 26 cI weighed out into their hand 650 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, ▼▼Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text
and 100 talents of gold, 2720 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, ▼▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28And I said to them, g“You are holy to the Lord, and hthe vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, iwithin the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30So the priests and the Levites jtook over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God. 31Then we departed from the river Ahava kon the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. lThe hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. 32 mWe came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. 33On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were nweighed into the hands of oMeremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, pJozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of qBinnui. 34The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
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