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Selected Verse: Ezra 8:27 - Strong Concordance

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Ezr 8:27 Strong Concordance Also twenty [06242] basons [03713] of gold [02091], of a thousand [0505] drams [0150]; and two [08147] vessels [03627] of fine [02896] [06668] copper [05178], precious [02532] as gold [02091].
  King James Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold--Almost all commentators agree in maintaining that the vessels referred to were not made of copper, but of an alloy capable of taking on a bright polish, which we think highly probable, as copper was then in common use among the Babylonians, and would not be as precious as gold. This alloy, much esteemed among the Jews, was composed of gold and other metals, which took on a high polish and was not subject to tarnish [NOYES].
 
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