OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 8:26

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26

I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold,

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EXPLANATION

Verse 26. A hundred. Hebrew adds, “talents,” vessels of silver. Bible.—Some Rabbins suppose there were only 100, each of this weight, which is not probable. All the silver vessels, of different sizes, weighed 100 talents. There was the same quantity of golden vessels. Calmet.

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A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

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