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25 The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents,[a] and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels,[b] according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 26 a bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel,[c] according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who was numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil—a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 38:25 About 3¾ tons, or 3.4 metric tons; and in v. 27.
  2. Exodus 38:25 About 44 pounds, or 20 kilograms; and in v. 28.
  3. Exodus 38:26 About ⅕ ounce, or 5.7 grams.