Ezra 8:27
twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
World English Bible (Public Domain)
In context
Before · Ezra 8:25–26
25and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered. 26I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold,
27twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
After · Ezra 8:28–29
28I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. 29Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the LORD’s house.”
Notes and cross references in the WEB
- Footnotea daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.