Ezekiel 45:12 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 45:12

The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

BSB

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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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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(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.'

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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."

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶל	ve.ha.She.kel	and the shekel	H8255 →
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים	'es.Rim	[will be] twenty	H6242 →
גֵּרָ֑ה	ge.Rah	gerah[s]	H1626 →
עֶשְׂרִ֨ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
שְׁקָלִ֜ים	she.ka.Lim	shekels	H8255 →
חֲמִשָּׁ֧ה	cha.mi.Shah	five	H2568 →
וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים	ve.'es.Rim	and twenty	H6242 →
שְׁקָלִ֗ים	she.ka.Lim	shekels	H8255 →
עֲשָׂרָ֤ה	'a.sa.Rah	ten	H6235 →
וַחֲמִשָּׁה֙	va.cha.mi.Shah	and five	H2568 →
שֶׁ֔קֶל	She.kel	shekel[s]	H8255 →
הַמָּנֶ֖ה	ha.ma.Neh	the mina	H4488 →
יִֽהְיֶ֥ה	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
לָכֶֽם׃	la.Khem	for you

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Leviticus 27:25
  Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  Reached by 2 independent 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 independent 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?”
Through
Leviticus 27:25
Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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 independent 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 independent paths from here.
Through
Numbers 3:47
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
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.

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06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel