Esdras 7:22

22 hasta cien talentos de plata, cien coros de trigo, cien batos de vino, cien batos de aceite y sal sin medida.

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 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

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

Esdras 7:22 In-Context

20 Y lo demás que se necesite para la casa de tu Dios, para lo cual tengas ocasión de proveer, provéelo del tesoro real.
21 Yo, el rey Artajerjes, proclamo un decreto a todos los tesoreros que están en las provincias más allá del río, que todo lo que os pida el sacerdote Esdras, escriba de la ley del Dios del cielo, sea hecho puntualmente,
22 hasta cien talentos de plata, cien coros de trigo, cien batos de vino, cien batos de aceite y sal sin medida.
23 Todo cuanto ordene el Dios del cielo, sea hecho con esmero para la casa del Dios del cielo, no sea que venga la ira contra el reino del rey y sus hijos.
24 También os hacemos saber que no se permite cobrar tributo, impuesto o peaje a ninguno de los sacerdotes, levitas, cantores, porteros, sirvientes, o ministros de esta casa de Dios.

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Un talento equivale aprox. a 34 kg.
  • [b]. Un coro equivale aprox. a 220 litros
  • [c]. Un bato equivale aprox. a 22 litros
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