Ezra 2:69

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the world threescore and one thousand drachms of gold,.... These "darcemons or darics" were a Persian coin; one of which, according to Brerewood k, was of the value of fifteen shillings of our money, and so this quantity of them amounted to 45,750 pounds; but according to Bishop Cumberland l they were of the value of twenty shillings and four pence of our money, and so came to upwards of 61,000 pounds; these everyone, according to his ability, put into the common stock or treasury for the work of building the temple; the Vulgate Latin m reads 40,000:

and five thousand pounds of silver; and an Hebrew "mina", or pound, being of our money seven pounds, ten shillings, according to Brerewood n, amounted to 31,250 pounds: but others o, reckoning a drachm of gold at ten shillings, and a mina or pound of silver at nine pounds, make the whole to amount only to 75,500 pounds of our money:

and one hundred priests' garments; which, as they were laid up among treasures, so were necessary for the service of the temple.

k De Pret. Ponder. Vet. Num. ch. iii. v. l Scripture Weights Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. m Sixtus V. Lovain MSS. in James ut supra. (Contrariety of Popish Bibles, p. 295) n Ut supra, (De Pret. Ponder. Vet. Num.) ch. iv. v. o Universal History, vol. 10. p. 183, marg.