Numbers 7:85

85 Each plate weighed three and a quarter pounds and each bowl one and three-quarter pounds. All the plates and bowls together weighed about sixty pounds (using the official Sanctuary weight).

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 two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five yearling lambs to be sacrificed as a Peace-Offering. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

84 These were the dedication offerings of the leaders of Israel for the anointing of the Altar: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold vessels.

85 Each plate weighed three and a quarter pounds and each bowl one and three-quarter pounds. All the plates and bowls together weighed about sixty pounds (using the official Sanctuary weight).

86 The twelve gold vessels filled with incense weighed four ounces each (using the official Sanctuary weight). Altogether the gold vessels weighed about three pounds.

87 The sum total of animals used for the Whole-Burnt-Offering together with the Grain-Offering: twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve yearling lambs. For the Absolution-Offering: twelve he-goats.