Ezra 7:22

up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — King Artaxerxes directs the treasurers west of the Euphrates to supply Ezra the priest and scribe with specified resources promptly for the restoration of God's house. The words — The decree establishes quantitative limits using עַד־ ('ad), meaning "up to," paired with כַּכְּרִין (ka.kerin, "talents") and מְאָה (me'ah, "one hundred") to cap the silver, wheat, and other provisions. The thread — The command for unlimited salt corresponds to Leviticus 2:13's instruction to never omit the salt of the covenant, while the measured oil and wine reflect later temple supply standards in Ezekiel 45:14 and administrative accounting in Luke 16:6. Why it lands — The text requires the king's treasury to fund worship restoration with precise, generous allowances while explicitly removing restrictions on consecrated items like salt.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Cross-references

Leviticus 2:13 And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
Ezekiel 45:14 The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
Luke 16:6 ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’