Ezechiele 45:12

12 Il siclo sarà di venti ghere; venti sicli, venticinque sicli, quindici sicli, formeranno la vostra mina.

Ezechiele 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.

Ezechiele 45:12 In-Context

10 Abbiate bilance giuste, efa giusto, bat giusto.

11 L’efa e il bat avranno la stessa capacità: il bat conterrà la decima parte d’un omer e l’efa la decima parte d’un omer; la loro capacità sarà regolata dall’omer.

12 Il siclo sarà di venti ghere; venti sicli, venticinque sicli, quindici sicli, formeranno la vostra mina.

13 Questa è l’offerta che preleverete: la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer di frumento, e la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer d’orzo.

14 Questa è la norma per l’olio: un decimo di bat d’olio per un cor, che è dieci bati, cioè un omer; poiché dieci bati fanno un omer.