Exodus 38:25

25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exodus 38:25 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 38:25

And the silver of them that were numbered of the
congregation
This was not the offering of silver, ( Exodus 35:24 ) but what was collected in numbering the people, where everyone of twenty years old and upwards paid half a shekel, ( Exodus 30:12-15 ) the sum

[was] an hundred talents, one thousand seven hundred and threescore
fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
which, according to Brerewood ^F17, make of our money, 37,721 pounds, seventeen shillings, and six pence; according to Waserus ^F18, the whole amounted to 150,887 dollars and a half: and so, according to Lundius ^F19, the sum is so many imperials, and forty five creutzers or cross pennies.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Ut supra. (De Ponder & pretiis Vet. Num. c. 4, 5.)
F18 Ut supra. (De Antiqu. Numis. l. 2. c. 18.)
F19 Apud Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 253.

Exodus 38:25 In-Context

23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

27 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.