Numbers 7:85

85 each silver dish of a hundred and thirty [shekels], and each bowl seventy: all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred [shekels] according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

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 oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

84 This was the dedication-gift of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve cups of gold:

85 each silver dish of a hundred and thirty [shekels], and each bowl seventy: all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred [shekels] according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

86 twelve golden cups full of incense, each cup of ten [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the cups, a hundred and twenty [shekels].

87 All the cattle for the burnt-offering was: twelve bullocks, twelve rams, twelve yearling lambs and their oblation; and twelve bucks of the goats for a sin-offering.