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27 and 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 [a]darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold. 28 Then I said to them, “(A)You are holy to Yahweh, and the (B)utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers. 29 Watch and keep them (C)until you weigh them before the officials of the priests, the Levites and the officials of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh.”

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  1. Ezra 8:27 A Persian gold coin weighing approx. 0.3 oz. or 8 gm

27 20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics,[a] and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

28 I said to them, “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord.(A) The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your ancestors. 29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.”

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  1. Ezra 8:27 That is, about 19 pounds or about 8.4 kilograms