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25 I weighed out for them the silver and the gold and the vessels—the special contribution for the house of our God, which had been contributed by the king and his advisors and officials and by all the Israelites who were present there.

26 I weighed out and placed into their hands six hundred fifty talents[a] of silver, silver vessels worth one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, 27 and twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics,[b] and two finely polished bronze vessels, as precious as gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:26 A talent is about seventy-five pounds.
  2. Ezra 8:27 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, about a third of an ounce. It is also the name of the standard Persian gold coin.