Esdras 7:22

22 Pueden darle hasta tres mil trescientos kilos de plata, veintidós mil litros de trigo, dos mil doscientos litros de vino, dos mil doscientos litros de aceite^[a] y toda la sal que se requiera.

Esdras 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 7:22

Unto one hundred talents of silver
Which amounted to 35,300 pounds sterling; these, according to Jarchi, were to buy the offerings or sacrifices with:

and an hundred measures of wheat;
or corn, the same measure with the homer, each of which held ten ephahs, or seventy five wine gallons, five pints, and upwards; these, according to the same writer, were for meat offerings, made of fine flour, or rather bread offerings, as they may be called:

and to an hundred baths of wine;
which was the same measure in liquids as the ephah in things dry, a tenth part of the cor or homer, and held seven wine gallons, five pints, and upwards ^F21; these were for the drink offerings:

and to an hundred baths of oil;
the same measure as before; these were to mix in the meat offerings:

and salt without prescribing how much;
because it was used in all offerings, and was cheap, and therefore no measure is fixed, but as much as was wanting was to be given, see ( Leviticus 2:1-13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 See Cumberland's Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 137.

Esdras 7:22 In-Context

20 Cualquier otro gasto que sea necesario para el templo de tu Dios, se cubrirá del tesoro real.

21 Ahora bien, yo, el rey Artajerjes, les ordeno a todos los tesoreros que están al oeste del río Éufrates, que entreguen de inmediato todo cuanto solicite Esdras, sacerdote y maestro versado en la ley del Dios del cielo.

22 Pueden darle hasta tres mil trescientos kilos de plata, veintidós mil litros de trigo, dos mil doscientos litros de vino, dos mil doscientos litros de aceite y toda la sal que se requiera.

23 Todo lo que ha ordenado el Dios del cielo para su templo, háganlo de inmediato, de modo que no se descargue su ira contra el dominio del rey y su familia.

24 También les ordeno que exoneren de impuestos a los sacerdotes, levitas, cantores, porteros y servidores del templo de Dios.

Footnotes

• [a]. "hasta " "… " "aceite" . Lit. "hasta cien talentos de plata y hasta cien coros de trigo y hasta cien batos de vino y hasta cien batos de aceite" .