Numbers 7:14

14 One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.

Numbers 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:14

One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold, &c.
] Its weight was according to the shekels, its matter of gold; it weighed four ounces, one drachm, and nine grains, and was worth about seven pounds and ten shillings of our money:

full of incense;
this looks as if this spoon was designed for the golden altar of incense, which might be at this time also dedicated; but Jarchi understands it as for the altar of burnt offering, and observes, we never find incense belonging to a private person, nor to the outward altar (the altar of burnt offering), but this only, and which was temporary.

Numbers 7:14 In-Context

12 And he that offered his gift on the first day, was Naasson the son of Aminadab, prince of the tribe of Juda.
13 And he brought his gift, one silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.
14 One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.
15 One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering;
16 and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. one censer of ten golden weights.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.