Exodus 38:29

29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,

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.


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 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made the capitals for the pillars and covered their heads and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels,
30 with which he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar
31 and the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court gate and all the stakes of the tabernacle, and all the stakes of the court round about.
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