Numbers 7:14

14 a spoon of ten golden shekels, full of incense. (and a gold saucer, weighing ten shekels, 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 Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, (the prince) of the lineage of Judah, offered his offering in the first day; and (he offered) (On the first day, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, the leader of the sons of Judah, offered)
13 a silver vessel to prove incense and such things, in the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a basin of silver, having seventy shekels by the weight of the saintuary, ever either full of [tried] flour sprinkled (al)together with oil, into sacrifice; (a silver vessel, weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and a silver basin, weighing seventy shekels, by the measure, or the standard, of the sanctuary, and each full of fine flour sprinkled with oil, for a grain offering;)
14 a spoon of ten golden shekels, full of incense. (and a gold saucer, weighing ten shekels, full of incense.)
15 He offered an ox of the drove, and a ram, and a lamb of one year, into burnt sacrifice; (And he offered an ox from the herd, and a ram, and a one-year-old lamb, for a burnt sacrifice;)
16 and a buck of (the) goats, for sin. (and a goat buck, for a sin offering.)
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