27 twenty gold basins worth a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, 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,
[a]Valuable as fine gold,
How they are [b]regarded (A)as clay pots,
The work of the hands of the potter!

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:2 Lit. Weighed against
  2. Lamentations 4:2 reckoned

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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