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24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests to be with Sherebiah and Hashabiah and ten of their brothers with them. 25 I weighed out for them the silver and the gold and the vessels—the special contribution for the house of our God, which had been contributed by the king and his advisors and officials and by all the Israelites who were present there.

26 I weighed out and placed into their hands six hundred fifty talents[a] of silver, silver vessels worth one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:26 A talent is about seventy-five pounds.