Ezra 8:27

Modern

…20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

Traditional

Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

Literal

…and twenty gold bowls of a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze as precious as gold.

Latin

…et crateres aureos viginti, qui habebant solidos millenos, et vasa æris fulgentis optimi duo, pulchra ut aurum.

Hebrew

English

20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

The Persians and supportive Jews donated a large amount of money. Transporting it without a royal escort was very risky.

Theme notes and profiles

Lamentations 4:2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!