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Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/45.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/45.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/45.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/45.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the shekel <i>shall be</i> twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/45.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The shekel <i>shall be</i> twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, <i>and</i> fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/45.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, <i>and</i> fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/45.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/45.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, <i>and</i> fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/45.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, <i>and</i> fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/45.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels [added together, a total of sixty] shall be your maneh (mina).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/45.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The shekel will weigh twenty gerahs. Your mina will equal sixty shekels.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/45.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs. Your mina will equal 60 shekels.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/45.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/45.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The standard unit of weight will be the shekel. One shekel will equal 20 gerahs, and 60 shekels will equal one mina. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/45.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/45.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />One shekel must weigh 20 gerahs. One mina must weigh 60 shekels. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/45.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Your weights are to be as follows: 20 gerahs = 1 shekel 60 shekels = 1 mina <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/45.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />The shekel is to weigh 20 gerahs. The mina is to be comprised of three coins weighing 20, 25, and fifteen shekels, respectively.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/45.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/45.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/45.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/45.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/45.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/45.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And the shekel [is] twenty gerah: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels—is your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/45.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/45.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the shekel twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/45.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sides, and five and twenty sides, and fifteen sides make a mna. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/45.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Now the shekel consists of twenty obols. Furthermore, twenty shekels, and twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels makes one mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/45.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels make up a mina for you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/45.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make a mina for you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/45.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the shekels shall be twenty gerahs; and each of the shekels shall be twenty-five minas; fifteen shekels shall be your mina.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/45.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And there shall be twenty shekels, plus a shekel from them twenty and five minas, plus a shekel of fifteen shall be for you one mina <div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/45.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, ten, and five shekels, shall be your maneh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/45.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the weights <i>shall be</i> twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=13851" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/45.htm">Honest Scales</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8255.htm" title="8255: wə·haš·še·qel (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- (a measure of weight) shekel. From shaqal; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard.">The shekel</a> <a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: ‘eś·rîm (Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">will consist of twenty</a> <a href="/hebrew/1626.htm" title="1626: gê·rāh (N-fs) -- A gerah (one-twentieth of a shekel). From garar; properly, a kernel, i.e. A gerah or small weight.">gerahs.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: ‘eś·rîm (Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">Twenty</a> <a href="/hebrew/8255.htm" title="8255: šə·qā·lîm (N-mp) -- (a measure of weight) shekel. From shaqal; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard.">shekels</a> <a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: wə·‘eś·rîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">plus twenty-five</a> <a href="/hebrew/2568.htm" title="2568: ḥă·miš·šāh (Number-ms) -- Five. Masculine chamishshah; a primitive numeral; five."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8255.htm" title="8255: šə·qā·lîm (N-mp) -- (a measure of weight) shekel. From shaqal; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard.">shekels</a> <a href="/hebrew/6235.htm" title="6235: ‘ă·śā·rāh (Number-ms) -- Ten. Masculine of term aasarah; from asar; ten.">plus fifteen</a> <a href="/hebrew/2568.htm" title="2568: wa·ḥă·miš·šāh (Conj-w:: Number-ms) -- Five. Masculine chamishshah; a primitive numeral; five."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8255.htm" title="8255: še·qel (N-ms) -- (a measure of weight) shekel. From shaqal; probably a weight; used as a commercial standard.">shekels</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will equal</a> <a href="/hebrew/4488.htm" title="4488: ham·mā·neh (Art:: N-ms) -- Maneh, mina (a measure of weight or money). From manah; properly, a fixed weight or measured amount, i.e. A maneh or mina.">one mina.</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- "></a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/19-36.htm">Leviticus 19:36</a></span><br />You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/11-1.htm">Proverbs 11:1</a></span><br />Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-13.htm">Deuteronomy 25:13-16</a></span><br />You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. / You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. / You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/8-5.htm">Amos 8:5</a></span><br />asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-10.htm">Micah 6:10-11</a></span><br />Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed? / Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/25-14.htm">Leviticus 25:14-16</a></span><br />If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. / You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. / You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/12-7.htm">Hosea 12:7</a></span><br />A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/20-10.htm">Proverbs 20:10</a></span><br />Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/20-23.htm">Proverbs 20:23</a></span><br />Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-37.htm">Matthew 5:37</a></span><br />Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-38.htm">Luke 6:38</a></span><br />Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/12-42.htm">Mark 12:42-44</a></span><br />Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. / Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. / For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-1.htm">Luke 21:1-4</a></span><br />Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, / and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. / “Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.</p><p class="hdg">the shekel</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/30-13.htm">Exodus 30:13</a></b></br> This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel <i>is</i> twenty gerahs:) an half shekel <i>shall be</i> the offering of the LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/27-25.htm">Leviticus 27:25</a></b></br> And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/3-47.htm">Numbers 3:47</a></b></br> Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take <i>them</i>: (the shekel <i>is</i> twenty gerahs:)</p><p class="hdg">twenty shekels.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/45-20.htm">Ezekiel 45:20</a></b></br> And so thou shalt do the seventh <i>day</i> of the month for every one that erreth, and for <i>him that is</i> simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/45-25.htm">Ezekiel 45:25</a></b></br> In the seventh <i>month</i>, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/45-15.htm">Ezekiel 45:15</a></b></br> And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/2-4.htm">Consist</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-11.htm">Equal</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm">Fifteen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-2.htm">Fifty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-6.htm">Five</a> <a href="/numbers/18-16.htm">Gerahs</a> <a href="/luke/19-24.htm">Mina</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm">Plus</a> <a href="/nehemiah/10-32.htm">Shekel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-5.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-6.htm">Twenty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-6.htm">Twenty-Five</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/12-15.htm">Consist</a> <a href="/ezekiel/47-14.htm">Equal</a> <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">Fifteen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-17.htm">Fifty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-8.htm">Five</a> <a href="/exodus/30-13.htm">Gerahs</a> <a href="/luke/19-13.htm">Mina</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-7.htm">Plus</a> <a href="/amos/8-5.htm">Shekel</a> <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-14.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-8.htm">Twenty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-8.htm">Twenty-Five</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 45</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/45-1.htm">The portion of land for the sanctuary</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/45-6.htm">for the city</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/45-7.htm">and for the prince</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/45-9.htm">Ordinances for the prince</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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A gerah was the smallest unit, and twenty gerahs made up one shekel. This reflects the precision and order in the economic system established by God for His people. The use of the shekel and gerah is mentioned in other parts of the Old Testament, such as <a href="/exodus/30-13.htm">Exodus 30:13</a>, where the half-shekel is used for the sanctuary tax. This system ensured fairness and consistency in trade and offerings. The shekel's role in the temple economy underscores the importance of integrity and honesty in worship and daily life.<p><b>Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.</b><br>The mina was a larger unit of weight and currency, and this verse provides a specific conversion rate for it. The total of sixty shekels to a mina indicates a standardized system that facilitated larger transactions and offerings. This standardization reflects the organized and structured nature of the society God was establishing through Ezekiel's vision. The mention of these specific weights and measures can be seen as a foreshadowing of the ultimate fulfillment of God's order and justice through Christ, who is the true measure of righteousness. The precision in these measurements also points to the meticulous care God takes in His covenant relationship with His people, ensuring that all aspects of life, including economic transactions, are conducted in a manner that honors Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet during the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel is the author of the book. He receives visions and messages from God to deliver to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation to whom Ezekiel is prophesying. They are in exile due to their disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The period during which the Israelites were taken captive by Babylon, a significant context for Ezekiel's prophecies.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/shekel_and_mina.htm">Shekel and Mina</a></b><br>Units of weight and currency in ancient Israel, used here to describe a standard of measurement.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/temple_regulations.htm">Temple Regulations</a></b><br>The broader context of this passage involves instructions for the temple and its services, reflecting God's order and holiness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_standard_of_justice.htm">God's Standard of Justice</a></b><br>God establishes clear standards for weights and measures, reflecting His desire for justice and fairness in all aspects of life.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/integrity_in_worship_and_commerce.htm">Integrity in Worship and Commerce</a></b><br>The passage underscores the importance of integrity, not only in worship but also in everyday transactions. Believers are called to reflect God's character in all dealings.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_in_the_details.htm">Holiness in the Details</a></b><br>Even the smallest details, like weights and measures, matter to God. This teaches us that every aspect of our lives should be aligned with His holiness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_accountability.htm">Community and Accountability</a></b><br>By setting a standard, God ensures that the community operates with accountability and trust. Believers are encouraged to uphold these values in their communities.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_numbers.htm">Symbolism of Numbers</a></b><br>The specific numbers mentioned (20, 25, 15) may symbolize completeness and order, reminding us of God's perfect design and sovereignty.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_45.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 45</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/biblical_weights_and_measures.htm">What are the Biblical weights and measures?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_hosea_3_events_symbolic_or_historical.htm">Could the events of Hosea 3 be purely symbolic or allegorical, and if so, what would that imply about their historical reliability?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_do_ezekiel's_measures_differ.htm">Why do the weights and measures in Ezekiel 45:9-12 differ from earlier biblical standards, creating potential contradictions within the text?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_judah's_judgment_unique.htm">(Amos 2:4-5) Why does God's judgment on Judah differ from judgments described in other prophetic books?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/45.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">The shekel</span>.--The first part of this verse is merely a re-statement of the old law (<a href="/exodus/30-13.htm" title="This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.">Exodus 30:13</a>; <a href="/leviticus/27-25.htm" title="And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.">Leviticus 27:25</a>; <a href="/numbers/3-47.htm" title="You shall even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)">Numbers 3:47</a>) that the shekel should be of the value of twenty gerahs, or of the estimated weight of 220 grains; but the latter part of the verse is extremely obscure. The <span class= "ital">maneh</span> is mentioned elsewhere only in <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm" title="And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.">1Kings 10:17</a>; <a href="/ezra/2-69.htm" title="They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work three score and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.">Ezra 2:69</a>; Neh. vii 71, and is translated in our version <span class= "ital">pound.</span> Its actual value is unknown. If the text as it stands is correct, it is possible that in Ezekiel's time three different <span class= "ital">manehs</span> were in use, of the values respectively assigned to them; but of this there is no other evidence.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/45.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The shekel shall be twenty garahs</span>. This ordained that the standard for money weights should remain as it had been fixed by the Law (<a href="/exodus/30-13.htm">Exodus 30:13</a>; <a href="/leviticus/27-25.htm">Leviticus 27:25</a>; <a href="/numbers/3-47.htm">Numbers 3:47</a>). The "shekel" (or "weight," from <span class="hebrew">שָׁקַל</span>, "to weigh;" compare the Italian <span class="accented">lira</span>, <span class="accented">the</span> French <span class="accented">livre</span> out of the Latin <span class="accented">libra</span>, and the English Found sterling) was a piece of silver whose value, originally determined by weight, became gradually fixed at the definite sum of twenty "gerahs," beans, or grains (from <span class="hebrew">גָּרַר</span>, "to roll"). The "gerah," value two pence, was the smallest silver coin; the "shekel," therefore, was forty pence, or 3s. 4d. Commentators are divided as to how the second half of this verse should be understood: <span class="cmt_word">twenty shekel, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.</span> The "maneh" (or "portion," from <span class="hebrew">מָנָה</span>, "to be divided"), which occurs only here and in <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">1 Kings 10:17</a>; <a href="/ezra/2-69.htm">Ezra 2:69</a>; and <a href="/nehemiah/7-71.htm">Nehemiah 7:71, 72</a> - "that is to say, only in books written during the Captivity or subsequent to it" (Keil) - was probably the same coin as the Greek rains (<span class="greek">μνᾶ</span>), though its weight may have somewhat differed. A comparison of <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">1 Kings 10:17</a> with <a href="/2_chronicles/9-16.htm">2 Chronicles 9:16</a> shows that a maneh was equal to a hundred shekels, which cannot be made to harmonize with the statement in this verse without supposing either that an error has crept in through transcription, or that the chronicler has employed the late Greek style of reckoning, in which one mina is equivalent to a hundred drachmas. Again, the Hebrew and Attic talents, when ex-stained, fail to solve the problem as to how the text should be rendered. The Hebrew talent, <span class="hebrew">כִּכָּר</span>, contained 3000 sacred or Mosaic shekels according to <a href="/exodus/38-25.htm">Exodus 38:25, 26</a>; and the Attic talon 60 minas, each of 100 drachmas, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> 6000 drachmas, or 3000 drachmas, each of which again was equal to a Hebrew shekel. Hence the Attic mina must have been one-sixtieth part of 3000, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> 50 shekels, which once more fails to correspond with Ezekiel's notation. What this notation is depends on how the clauses should be connected. If with "and," <span class="accented">as</span> Ewald, following the Targumists, thinks, Ezekiel is supposed to have ordained that in the future the maneh should be, not 50, but 60 (20 + 25 -1- 15) shekels - the weight of the 'Babylonian <span class="accented">mana</span> ('Records of the Past,' 4:97, second series); only, if he so intended, one sees not why he should have adopted this roundabout method of expression instead of simply stating that henceforth the maneh should be sixty shekels If with "or," as Michaelis, Gesenius, Hitzig, and Hengstenberg prefer, then the prophet is regarded as asserting that in the future three manehs of varying values should be current - one of gold, another of silver, and a third of copper (Hitzig), or all of the same metal, but of different magnitudes (Michaelis); and this arrangement might well have been appointed for the future, although no historical trace can be found of any such manehs of twenty, twenty-five, and fifteen shekels respectively having been in circulation either <span class="accented">among</span> the Hebrews or among foreign peoples. Kliefoth pronounces both solutions unsatisfactory, but has nothing better to offer. Keil supposes a corruption of the text of old standing, for the correction of which we are as yet without materials. Bertheau and Havernick follow the LXX. (Cod. Alex.), <span class="greek">Οἱ πέντε σίκλοι πέντε καὶ δέκα</span> <span class="greek"> σίκλοι δέκα καὶ πεντήκοντα σίκλοι ἡ μνᾶ ἐσται ὑμῖν</span>, "<span class="accented">The five shekel</span> (piece) shall be five shekels, <span class="accented">and the ten shekel</span> (piece) shall be tea shekels, <span class="accented">end fifty shekels shall your maneh be</span>;" but Hitzig's judgment on this proposal, with which Kliefoth and Keil agree, will most likely be deemed correct, that "it carries on the face of it the probability of its resting upon nothing more than an attempt to bring the text into harmony with the ordinary value of the maneh." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">The shekel</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַשֶּׁ֖קֶל</span> <span class="translit">(wə·haš·še·qel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8255.htm">Strong's 8255: </a> </span><span class="str2">A weight, a commercial standard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will consist of twenty</span><br /><span class="heb">עֶשְׂרִ֣ים</span> <span class="translit">(‘eś·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Twenty, twentieth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">gerahs.</span><br /><span class="heb">גֵּרָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(gê·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1626.htm">Strong's 1626: </a> </span><span class="str2">A gerah (one-twentieth of a shekel)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Twenty</span><br /><span class="heb">עֶשְׂרִ֨ים</span> <span class="translit">(‘eś·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Twenty, twentieth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shekels</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁקָלִ֜ים</span> <span class="translit">(šə·qā·lîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8255.htm">Strong's 8255: </a> </span><span class="str2">A weight, a commercial standard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">plus twenty-five</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעֶשְׂרִ֣ים</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘eś·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Twenty, twentieth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shekels</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁקָלִ֗ים</span> <span class="translit">(šə·qā·lîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8255.htm">Strong's 8255: </a> </span><span class="str2">A weight, a commercial standard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">plus fifteen</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲשָׂרָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·śā·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6235.htm">Strong's 6235: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ten</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shekels</span><br /><span class="heb">שֶׁ֔קֶל</span> <span class="translit">(še·qel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8255.htm">Strong's 8255: </a> </span><span class="str2">A weight, a commercial standard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will equal</span><br /><span class="heb">יִֽהְיֶ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(yih·yeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">one mina.</span><br /><span class="heb">הַמָּנֶ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(ham·mā·neh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4488.htm">Strong's 4488: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fixed weight, measured amount, a maneh, mina</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Ezekiel 45:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/45-12.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 45:12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs (Ezek. 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