2 Esdras 7:55-57

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ Say to it: You create gold, silver, bronze, iron, and also lead and clay. ⁵⁶ But silver is more numerous than gold, and bronze than silver, and iron than bronze, lead than iron, and clay than lead. ⁵⁷ Decide yourself then which things are precious and desirable, what is abundant or what is rare.”