Numbers 31:52

52 In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.

Numbers 31:52 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:52

And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the
Lord
The whole amount, weight, and value of it put together:

even of the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds,
and perhaps of every common soldier, who might contribute his part, though it is not mentioned, but included in the oblation of the officers:

was 16,750 shekels;
which, according to the calculation of a very learned man ^F9, were 7,780 ounces, four drachms, two scruples, and thirty five grains.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Scheuchzer. Physica Sacr. vol. 2. p. 399.

Numbers 31:52 In-Context

50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,

52 In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.

53 For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

54 And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.