Esdras 8:27

27 además veinte tazones de oro, por mil dracmas; y dos vasos de bronce limpio muy bueno, preciados como el oro

Esdras 8:27 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 8:27

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams
Which were upwards of 1000 pounds of our money; for Bishop Cumberland says {e}, the Persian "daric", "drachma", or "drachm", weighed twenty shillings and four pence; and, according to Dr. Bernard, it exceeded one of our guineas by two grains, (See Gill on 1 Chronicles 29:7)

and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold;
which perhaps is the same with the Indian or Persian brass Aristotle ^F6 speaks of, which is so bright and pure, and free from rust, that it cannot be known by its colour from gold, and that there are among the cups of Darius such as cannot be discerned whether they are brass or gold but by the smell: the Syriac version interprets it by Corinthian brass, which was a mixture of gold, silver, and copper, made when Corinth was burnt, and which is exceeding valuable; of which Pliny ^F7 makes three sorts, very precious, and of which he says, it is in value next to, and even before silver, and almost before gold; but this sort of brass was not as yet in being: Kimchi ^F8 interprets the word here of its colour, being next to the colour of gold.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115.
F6 De Mirabilibus, p. 704, vol. 1.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 34. c. 1, 2.
F8 Sepher Shorash. rad. (bhu) .

Esdras 8:27 In-Context

25 y les pesé la plata, el oro, y los vasos; la ofrenda para la Casa de nuestro Dios que habían ofrecido el rey, sus consultores, y sus príncipes, todos los que se hallaron de Israel

26 Pesé, pues, en manos de ellos seiscientos cincuenta talentos de plata, y vasos de plata por cien talentos, y cien talentos de oro

27 además veinte tazones de oro, por mil dracmas; y dos vasos de bronce limpio muy bueno, preciados como el oro

28 Y les dije: Vosotros sois santidad al SEÑOR, y los vasos son santidad; y la plata y el oro ofrenda voluntaria al SEÑOR, Dios de nuestros padres

29 Velad, y guardadlos, hasta que los peséis delante de los príncipes de los sacerdotes y de los levitas, y de los príncipes de los padres de Israel en Jerusalén, en las cámaras de la Casa del SEÑOR