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Ezra 8:27
Ezra 8:27 is verse 27 of Ezra chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.
Or worth 1,000 drachmas; that is, approximately 18.5 pounds or 8.4 kilograms of gold
King James Version
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
World English Bible
twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.
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Ezra 8:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.
26 I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,
27 20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.
28 Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.
29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
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Cross-references
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Lamentations 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!