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Ezra 8:26 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold, "
Ezra 8:26
Verse in Context
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24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
25 and 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.
26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold,
27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
28 I 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.
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Ezra 8:1
"Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:"
Ezra 8:2
"Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush."
Ezra 8:3
"Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty."
Ezra 8:4
"Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males."
Ezra 8:5
"Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males."
Ezra 8:6
"Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males."
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