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Ezra 8:26-28
New Catholic Bible
Ezra 8:26-28
New Catholic Bible
26 I weighed out and handed over to them six hundred and fifty talents[a] of silver, one hundred silver vessels weighing two talents, one hundred talents of gold, 27 twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two superb vessels of polished bronze, as precious as gold.
28 Then I said to them: “You are consecrated to the Lord, as are the utensils. The silver and the gold are a free-will offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
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- Ezra 8:26 Six hundred and fifty talents: this would convert to about 25 tons of silver. Even a much smaller amount would have been difficult to transport.
