Numbers 7:85

85 each charger of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl of seventy shekels: all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, the shekels according to the holy shekel.

Numbers 7:85 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:85

Each charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty
[shekels], each bowl seventy (See Gill on Numbers 7:13);

all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred
[shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary;
which amounted to 1,139 ounces and four drachms ^F11, which were worth about three hundred pounds of our money.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Vid. Scheuchzer. ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 366.)

Numbers 7:85 In-Context

83 And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this the gift of Achire the son of Aenan.

84 This was the dedication of the altar in the day in which anointed it, by the princes of the sons of Israel; twelve silver chargers, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden censers:

85 each charger of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl of seventy shekels: all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, the shekels according to the holy shekel.

86 Twelve golden censers full of incense: all the gold of the shekels, a hundred and twenty shekels.

87 All the cattle for whole-burnt-offerings, twelve calves, twelve rams, twelve he-lambs of a year old, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings: and twelve kids of the goats for sin-offering.

Footnotes

• [a]. one.
• [b]. cows.