Ezra Chapter 8 verse 27 Holy Bible
and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
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And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
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and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.
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Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
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Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
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and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
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and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams (see comment on Ezra 2:69). The "basons" would be worth about £55 each. Fine copper, precious as gold. The metal intended is probably that known to the Romans as orichalchum, which is generally believed to have been brass, but which may have been a more complicated amalgam. Being rarely, and perhaps only accidentally, produced, this metal was highly valued.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) A thousand drams.--Darics, and therefore the whole worth rather more than a thousand guineas.Fine copper.--Probably the Roman Orichalcum, a metal very highly valued.
