Priests to Guard Offerings

24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: (A)Sherebiah, (B)Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. 25 And I weighed out to them the (C)silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his (D)counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 26 (E)I weighed out into their hand 650 talents[a] of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents,[b] and 100 talents of gold, 27 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics,[c] and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28 And I said to them, (F)“You are holy to the Lord, and (G)the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29 Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, (H)within the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30 So the priests and the Levites (I)took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:26 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  2. Ezra 8:26 Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text
  3. Ezra 8:27 A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams

24 I selected twelve of the leading priests, along with Sherebiah,(A) Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers. 25 I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles—the contribution for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites who were present had offered. 26 I weighed out to them 24 tons[a] of silver, silver articles weighing 7,500 pounds,[b] 7,500 pounds of gold, 27 twenty gold bowls worth a thousand gold coins,[c] and two articles of fine gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.(B) 28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering(C) to the Lord God of your ancestors. 29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the Lord’s house before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families in Jerusalem.” 30 So the priests and Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the articles that had been weighed out, to bring them to the house of our God in Jerusalem.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:26 Lit 650 talents
  2. 8:26 Lit 100 talents
  3. 8:27 Or 1,000 drachmas, or 1,000 darics