Numbers 7:86

86 And the .xij. golden spones which were full of cens contayned ten sycles a pece of the holy sycle: so that all the golde of the spones was an hundred and .xx. sycles.

Numbers 7:86 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:86

The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense
Which points at the use those spoons or cups were of, namely, to carry incense in them, such as were used on the day of atonement ^F12:

[weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
(See Gill on Numbers 7:14);

all the gold of the spoons [was] twenty [shekels];
which amounted to forty nine ounces, five drachms, scruples, and eight gains, worth about seventy five pounds of our money.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Misn. Yoma, c. 4, 4. & 5, 1.

Numbers 7:86 In-Context

84 Of this maner was the dedicacyon of the alter when it was anoynted: vnto the whiche was broughte of the prynces of Israel .xij. chargers of syluer .xij. syluern boules and .xij spones of golde:

85 euery charger contaynynge an hundred and .xxx. sycles of syluer and euery boule .lxx. so that all the syluer of all the vessels was two thousande and .iiij. hundred sycles of the holy sycle.

86 And the .xij. golden spones which were full of cens contayned ten sycles a pece of the holy sycle: so that all the golde of the spones was an hundred and .xx. sycles.

87 All the oxen that were broughte for the burntoffrynges were .xij. and the rames .xij and the labes .xij. of a yere olde a pece with the meateofferynges: with he gootes for synneyr offrynges.

88 And all the oxe of the peaceofferynges were .xxiiij. the rammes .lx. the gootes .lx. and lambes of a yere olde a pece .lx. and this was the dedicacion of the alter after yt it was anoynted.