Ezekiel 45:12
in Ezekiel 45The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
KJV
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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This verse in Ezekiel 45
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Chapter 45, verses 10 and following) 'A fair balance and a fair ephah and a fair bath shall be for you. The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth part of a homer, and the ephah a tenth part of a homer: their measure shall be according to the homer. Now a shekel has twenty obols. Furthermore, twenty shekels, and twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels make a mina.'
This site's exposition
Ye shall have just balances
on Ezekiel 45:10-12
The command for just balances, a just ephah and a just bath sets one honest standard for dry and liquid measure alike, the bath and the ephah both a tenth of the homer, and fixes the shekel at twenty gerahs so the maneh cannot be quietly redefined. Clarke reads the ruling against the ancient habit of keeping one weight to buy with and a lighter one to sell with, the very fraud Amos and Micah name. Honest measure stands here beside honest worship as one requirement, not two.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Twenty gerahs - A gerah was one penny half-penny, the shekel then was two shillings and six-pence, twenty shekels was two pounds ten shillings, fifteen shekels was one pound seventeen shillings and six-pence, and twenty five was three pound two shillings and six-pence.
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The shekel - See the marginal reference. The “maneh” shall be of true weight, but it would seem that in Ezekiel’s time there were “manehs” of different value.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
By weighing these together against the maneh, a test was afforded whether they severally had their proper weight: sixty shekels in all, containing one coin a fourth of the whole (fifteen shekels), another a third (twenty shekels), another a third and a twelfth (twenty-five shekels) [MENOCHIUS]. The Septuagint reads, "fifty shekels shall be your maneh."
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat This amounts to one out of sixty. Whoever wishes to give little shall not give less than this, and this is what they said (Ter.:3): “A stingy person gives one out of sixty.”
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶל | vehashekel | and the shekel | H8255 → | 88 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | ʾesrim | [will be] twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| גֵּרָ֑ה | gerah | gerah[s] | H1626 → | |
| עֶשְׂרִ֨ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| שְׁקָלִ֜ים | shekalim | shekels | H8255 → | 88 times |
| חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה | chamishah | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| שְׁקָלִ֗ים | shekalim | shekels | H8255 → | 88 times |
| עֲשָׂרָ֤ה | ʾasarah | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| וַחֲמִשָּׁה֙ | vachamishah | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| שֶׁ֔קֶל | shekel | shekel[s] | H8255 → | 88 times |
| הַמָּנֶ֖ה | hamaneh | the mina | H4488 → | |
| יִֽהְיֶ֥ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶֽם׃ | lakhem | for you |
וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶלand the shekel
vehashekelH8255 →88 times
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים[will be] twenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
גֵּרָ֑הgerah[s]
gerahH1626 →
עֶשְׂרִ֨יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
שְׁקָלִ֜יםshekels
shekalimH8255 →88 times
חֲמִשָּׁ֧הfive
chamishahH2568 →343 times
וְעֶשְׂרִ֣יםand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
שְׁקָלִ֗יםshekels
shekalimH8255 →88 times
עֲשָׂרָ֤הten
ʾasarahH6235 →176 times
וַחֲמִשָּׁה֙and five
vachamishahH2568 →343 times
שֶׁ֔קֶלshekel[s]
shekelH8255 →88 times
הַמָּנֶ֖הthe mina
hamanehH4488 →
יִֽהְיֶ֥הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶֽם׃for you
lakhem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 30:13Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
it leads to
- Leviticus 27:25
Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 3:47
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 38:26
a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
- Matthew 17:24
After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”
- Leviticus 27:25
Through
Leviticus 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
it leads to
- Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 18:16
You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 30:13
Through
Numbers 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
it leads to
- Leviticus 27:6
Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
- Numbers 3:50
He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
- Leviticus 27:6
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.