Exodus 38:29

29 The bronze in the offering came to 4,680 pounds.

Exodus 38:29 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 38:29

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
thousand four hundred shekels.
] Which, according to Paris weight, were 6177 pounds, ten ounces, two drachms, and sixty four grains ^F23: this might be had from the neighbouring mountains of Arabia, where it is said ^F24 the metals of brass and iron were first dug.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Vid. Scheuchzer, ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 253.)
F24 Aristeas de 72. interpret. p. 42. Vid. Hieron. de loc. Hebr. fol. 90. A.

Exodus 38:29 In-Context

27 The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain -one hundred sockets made from the hundred talents, one talent [sixty-six pounds] per socket.

28 The 1,775 shekels [fifty pounds] he used to make hooks for the posts, to overlay their capitals and to make fasteners for them.

29 The bronze in the offering came to 4,680 pounds.

30 He used it to make the sockets for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, its bronze grate, all the utensils for the altar,

31 the sockets for the courtyard around it, the sockets for the gateway to the courtyard, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and all the tent pegs for the courtyard around it.