They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
Parallel translations
- KJV They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
- BSB According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.
- NKJV According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments.
- NASB According to their ability they gave to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand silver minas, and a hundred priestly garments.
- NLT and each leader gave as much as he could. The total of their gifts came to 61,000 gold coins, 6,250 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.
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Quick answer
They contributed gold, silver, and priestly garments according to their ability. Each gave proportionally to support the work.
Overview
The gifts were generous yet measured by what each could give, a principle later affirmed in the New Testament (2 Corinthians 8:12). Providing priestly garments shows their concern that worship be properly conducted. God honors offerings given freely and in faith, whatever their size.
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- Ezra 8:25–34and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.
- 1 Chr 26:20–28Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
- 1 Kgs 7:51Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.
- Neh 7:71–72Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
- 1 Chr 22:14Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.
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