Ezekiel 45:12

12 Le sicle aura vingt guéras; vingt sicles, plus vingt-cinq sicles, plus quinze sicles, feront la mine.

Ezekiel 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.

Ezekiel 45:12 In-Context

10 Ayez des balances justes, un épha juste et un bath juste.

11 L'épha et le bath auront la même mesure; le bath contiendra la dixième partie d'un homer, et l'épha la dixième partie d'un homer; leur mesure se réglera sur le homer.

12 Le sicle aura vingt guéras; vingt sicles, plus vingt-cinq sicles, plus quinze sicles, feront la mine.

13 Voici la portion que vous prélèverez: un sixième d'épha par homer de blé, et un sixième d'épha par homer d'orge;

14 Pour l'huile, pour un bath d'huile, vous prélèverez un dixième de bath par cor, qui vaut un homer de dix baths; car dix baths font le homer.