25 The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 26 a (A)beka[a] a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for (B)603,550 men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the (C)bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams

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