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Exodus 38:25

in Exodus 38

The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

KJV

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:

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This verse in Exodus 38

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It may seem difficult to imagine how the Israelites should be possessed of so much wealth in the desert; but it should be remembered that they were enriched first by the spoils of the Egyptians, and afterwards by those of the Amalekites. Besides, it is highly probable that during their sojourn they traded with the neighboring nations who bordered on the wilderness [HEWLETT].

This site's exposition

All the gold that was occupied for the work

on Exodus 38:24-26

The gold came in as an offering and the silver did not. Exodus 30:12-16 fixed the silver at half a shekel from every man numbered, with the rich forbidden to give more and the poor forbidden to give less, and called it a ransom for his soul. The 603,550 men counted here is the same figure Numbers 1:46 reports for the census taken about a year later.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Look. We learn from the sum mentioned in this verse that a talent consists of three thousand shekalim.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 38:25:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכֶ֛סֶףand [the] silver of

    vekhesefH3701 →403 times

  • פְּקוּדֵ֥י[those who] were enrolled of

    pekudeiH6485 →303 times

  • הָעֵדָ֖הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • מְאַ֣ת[was] one hundred

    meatH3967 →581 times

  • כִּכָּ֑רtalent[s]

    kikarH3603 →68 times

  • וְאֶלֶף֩and one thousand

    veelefH505 →505 times

  • וּשְׁבַ֨עand seven

    usheva'H7651 →394 times

  • מֵא֜וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • וַחֲמִשָּׁ֧הand five

    vachamishahH2568 →343 times

  • וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםand seventy

    veshivimH7657 →91 times

  • שֶׁ֖קֶלshekel[s]

    shekelH8255 →88 times

  • בְּשֶׁ֥קֶלby [the] shekel of

    beshekelH8255 →88 times

  • הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃the holy place

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 30:12

    “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 31:50

      So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

    • 1 Peter 1:18–19

      For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

    • Exodus 38:25–26

      The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—

    • 1 Chronicles 27:24

      Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles…

    • Psalms 49:7

      No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 38 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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