24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary, [a]which was the gold of the wave offering, was twenty-nine [b]talents and 730 [c]shekels, according to (A)the shekel of the sanctuary. 25 And (B)the silver of those of the congregation who were [d]counted was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 26 (C)a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), assessed to each one who passed over to those who were [e]counted, from twenty years old and upward, for (D)603,550 men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base. 28 And of the 1,775 shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and made [f]bands for them. 29 And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels. 30 With it he made the bases to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar, 31 and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs of the [g]tabernacle and all the pegs of the courtyard all around.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 38:24 Lit and it was
  2. Exodus 38:24 A talent was about 75 lb. or 34 kg
  3. Exodus 38:24 A shekel was about 0.5 oz. or 14 gm
  4. Exodus 38:25 Lit mustered
  5. Exodus 38:26 Lit mustered
  6. Exodus 38:28 Or rings
  7. Exodus 38:31 Lit dwelling place

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