Numbers 7:14

14 A little mortar of ten sicles of gold 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 first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering:
13 And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:
14 A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense:
15 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of a year old for a holocaust:
16 And a buck goat for sin:
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