27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

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

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Footnotes

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

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

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How the precious children of Zion,(A)
    once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
    the work of a potter’s hands!

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