Ezra 1:9

9 And this their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets,

Ezra 1:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 1:9

And this is the number of them
Of the vessels delivered, as follows:

thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver;
these, according to Ben Melech, were vessels in which water was put to wash hands in; but rather they were, as Aben Ezra observes from the Jerusalem Talmud ^F18, vessels in which they gathered the blood of lambs and bullocks slain for sacrifices:

nine and twenty knives;
which, because the handles of them were of gold or silver, were valuable, and might be very large knives, and what the priests used in slaying and cutting up the sacrifices.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 T. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1.

Ezra 1:9 In-Context

7 And king Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had brought from Jerusalem, and put in the house of his god.

8 And Cyrus king of the Persians brought them out by the hand of Mithradates the treasurer, and he numbered them to Sasabasar, the chief man of Juda.

9 And this their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets,

10 and four hundred ten double silver , and a thousand other vessels.

11 All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, all that went up with Sasabasar from the transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.