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650 talents of silver
"six hundred and fifty talents of silver." A talent weighs about thirty-three kilograms. You may convert this to a modern measure. AT: "22,000 kilograms of silver" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight)
one hundred talents of silver objects
"100 talents of silver objects." You may convert this to a modern measure. AT: "3,300 kilograms of silver objects" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight)
one hundred talents of gold
"100 talents of gold." You may convert this to a modern measure. AT: "3,300 kilograms of gold" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight)
one thousand darics
"1,000 darics." A "daric" was a small gold coin that people in the Persian Empire used. You can translate this in terms of the number of coins or their weight. AT: "one thousand Persian gold coins" or "eight and one half kilograms of gold" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bmoney)
bronze vessels
Bronze is a mixture of copper and another metal. It is stronger than pure copper.