Ezequiel 45:12

12 O peso padrão.^[a] deve ser de doze gramas. Vinte pesos, mais vinte e cinco pesos, mais quinze pesos equivalem a setecentos e vinte gramas^[b]

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 Usem balanças honestas, arroba; honesta e pote honesto.

11 A arroba e o pote devem ser iguais, o pote terá um décimo de um barril o barril deve ser a medida padrão para os dois.

12 O peso padrão. deve ser de doze gramas. Vinte pesos, mais vinte e cinco pesos, mais quinze pesos equivalem a setecentos e vinte gramas

13 “Esta é a oferta sagrada que vocês apresentarão: um sexto de uma arroba de cada barril de trigo e um sexto de uma arroba de cada barril de cevada.

14 A porção prescrita de azeite, medida pelo pote, é de um décimo de pote de cada tonel, que consiste em dez potes ou um barril, pois dez potes equivalem a um barril.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebraico: "siclo."
• [b] Hebraico: "1 mina. " Isto é, 60 siclos. A mina comum pesava 50 siclos ou 600 gramas.