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67 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.

68 So when the heads of the families came to the House of the Lord in Jerusalem, they gave voluntary contributions for God’s house in order to construct it on its site. 69 On the basis of their wealth, they gave the following amounts to the treasury to support the work: 61,000 gold darics,[a] 5,000 silver minas,[b] and 100 garments for the priests.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:69 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, perhaps a third of an ounce. It is also the name for the standard gold coin of the Persian Empire.
  2. Ezra 2:69 A mina weighed about 1¼ pounds.