Ezequiel 45:12

12 'Y el siclo será de veinte geras. Veinte siclos, veinticinco siclos y quince siclos serán una mina para vosotros.

Ezequiel 45:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 45:12

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs
This is a rule for money or coin; the shekel was a silver coin, and is generally reckoned about the value of two shillings and six pence of our money, so a gerah about three half pennies: Bishop Cumberland reckons the shekel more exactly at two shillings and four pence farthing, and a little more, and the gerah at eleven grains of silver; see ( Leviticus 27:25 ) : twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
maneh;
these were several pieces of money; one was a twenty shekel piece, which according to the common account was fifty shillings of our money; another was a five and twenty shekel piece, which was three pounds, two shillings, and sixpence; and a third was a fifteen shekel piece, which was one pound thirteen and sixpence; and together made a maneh or pound, which consisted of sixty shekels, or seven pounds, ten shillings; by which the other pieces should be tried, whether they were of just weight: the sense of the whole is, that no adulteration of coin should be made, which is very prejudicial in civil affairs.

Ezequiel 45:12 In-Context

10 'Tendréis balanzas justas, efa justo y bato justo.

11 'El efa y el bato serán de la misma cantidad, de modo que el bato contenga un décimo del homer y el efa un décimo del homer; se les medirá de acuerdo con el homer.

12 'Y el siclo será de veinte geras. Veinte siclos, veinticinco siclos y quince siclos serán una mina para vosotros.

13 'Esta es la ofrenda que ofreceréis: la sexta parte de un efa por cada homer de trigo; la sexta parte de un efa por cada homer de cebada;

14 y la ordenanza para el aceite, para el bato de aceite, será la décima parte de un bato por cada coro ; éste equivale a diez batos o un homer (porque diez batos son un homer);