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,

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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

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