25 The silver from those of the community who were registered was 7,544 pounds,[a] according to the sanctuary shekel— 26 one-fifth of an ounce[b] per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men. 27 There were 7,500 pounds[c] of silver used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain—one hundred bases from 7,500 pounds, 75 pounds[d] for each base.(A) 28 With the remaining 44 pounds[e] he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:25 Lit 100 talents and 1,775 shekels
  2. 38:26 Lit a beka
  3. 38:27 Lit 100 talents
  4. 38:27 Lit one talent
  5. 38:28 Lit 1,775 (shekels)

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.

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40 just as the Lord commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord(A) and become like Korah and his followers.

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40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

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