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exodus 38:25-28

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Exodus 38:25-28

King James Version (KJV)

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25. And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation [was] an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: 26. A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men]. 27. And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 28. And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

Exodus 38:25-28 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Exodus 38:25

Theological / Devotional

The silver. The weight of the silver would be about 7,582 lb. (3440 kg.) The “hundred sockets” (v. 27) compare exactly with the total number of “sockets” listed in ch. 26:19, 21, 25, 32.

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