Numbers 7:14

14 one gold bowl weighing four ounces,^[a] 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 The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.

13 His offering was one silver dish weighing three and a quarter pounds and one silver basin weighing one and three-quarter pounds, [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

14 one gold bowl weighing four ounces, full of incense;

15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

16 one male goat for a sin offering;

Footnotes

• [a] Lit 10 (shekels)