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Exodus 38:29

in Exodus 38

The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

KJV

And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

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This verse in Exodus 38

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. Which, according to Paris weight, were 6177 pounds, ten ounces, two drachms, and sixty four grains (w): this might be had from the neighbouring mountains of Arabia, where it is said (x) the metals of brass and iron were first dug. (w) Vid. Scheuchzer, ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 253.) (x) Aristeas de 72. interpret. p. 42. Vid. Hieron. de loc. Hebr. fol. 90. A.

This site's exposition

The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents

on Exodus 38:29-31

The bronze total closes the audit, running from the altar down to the tent pegs. The three metals fall by distance from the ark, gold within the veil, silver in the foundations and fittings, bronze in the courtyard.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

According to the estimate of the shekel that has here been adopted, the weight of the metals mentioned in this chapter would be nearly as follows, in avoirdupois weight: Gold 1 ton 4 cwt. 2 qrs. 13 lbs. Silver 4 tons 4 cwt. 2 qrs. 20 lbs. Bronze 2 tons 19 cwt. 2 qrs. 11 lbs. The value of the gold, if pure, in our money would be 175,075 British pounds, 13 shillings, and of the silver, 38,034 British pounds, 15 shillings 10d.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּנְחֹ֥שֶׁתand [the] bronze of

    unechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • הַתְּנוּפָ֖הthe wave-offering

    hatenufahH8573 →30 times

  • שִׁבְעִ֣ים[was] seventy

    shivimH7657 →91 times

  • כִּכָּ֑רtalent[s]

    kikarH3603 →68 times

  • וְאַלְפַּ֥יִםand two thousand

    vealpayimH505 →505 times

  • וְאַרְבַּע־and four

    vearba'-H702 →318 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • שָֽׁקֶל׃shekel[s]

    shakelH8255 →88 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 38 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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