Ezekiel 45:12

Cf. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16. The verse at present is without meaning. Read after LXX. (cod. Alex.): and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; five (shekels) shall be five, and ten shekels ten, and fifty shekels shall be your maneh (mina). The text is grammatically suspicious, and the way in which "fifteen" is supposed to be expressed, viz. "ten and five" is without parallel. The statement that "five shekels shall be five," &c., does not imply that there were five and ten shekel pieces, but means that just weighing of money shall prevail, and five go for five, no more and no less. The passage has been fully discussed by Bertheau (Zur Gesch. der Israeliten, pp. 8 14), whose table of money weights may be given (p. 14):

Talent

1

Maneh

60

1

Shekel

3,000

50

1

Beka

6,000

100

2

1

Gera

60,000

1,000

20

10

1.

Cf. Exodus 38:25; Leviticus 27:3; Leviticus 27:6; Joshua 7:21; 1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:71.