27 and twenty gold bowls worth a thousand [a]darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold. 28 Then I said to them, “(A)You are holy to the Lord, and the (B)utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a [b]voluntary offering to the Lord God of your fathers. 29 Watch and keep them (C)until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:27 A coin weighing about 0.25 oz. or 7 gm
  2. Ezra 8:28 Or freewill offering

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