KJV King James Version
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
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Ezra 2:69
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.
WEB World English Bible
they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
ASV American Standard Version
they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work threescore and one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
according to their power they have given to the treasure of the work; of gold, drams six myriads and a thousand, and of silver, pounds five thousand, and of priests’ coats, a hundred.
Surrounding context — Ezra 2
66 Their horses [were] seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; [their] asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
68 And [some] of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
70 So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
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כְּכֹחָ֗םH3581 · ko.achreptileנָתְנוּ֮H5414 · na.tanto give: giveלְאוֹצַ֣רH214 · o.tsartreasureהַמְּלָאכָה֒H4399 · me.la.khahworkזָהָ֗בH2091 · za.havgoldדַּרְכְּמוֹנִים֙H1871 · dar.ke.mondrachmaשֵׁשׁ־H8337 · sheshsixרִבֹּ֣אותH7239 · rib.boten thousandוָאֶ֔לֶף סH505 · e.lephthousandוְכֶ֕סֶףH3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyמָנִ֖יםH4488 · ma.nehminaחֲמֵ֣שֶׁתH2568 · cha.meshfiveאֲלָפִ֑יםH505 · e.lephthousandוְכָתְנֹ֥תH3801 · ke.to.nettunicכֹּהֲנִ֖יםH3548 · ko.henpriestמֵאָֽה׃ סH3967 · me.ahhundred
Cross-references
Ezra 8:25-34And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered:1 Chronicles 22:14Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.1 Chronicles 26:20-28And of the Levites, Ahijah [was] over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.1 Kings 7:51So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.Nehemiah 7:71-72And [some] of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
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