Numbers - 7:85



85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;

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each silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty'shekels , and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred'shekels , after the shekel of the sanctuary;
Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides of silver, and each bowl seventy sides: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sides, by the weight of the sanctuary.
each silver dish of a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy: all the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary;
each silver charger weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy: all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
The weight of every silver plate was a hundred and thirty shekels, and of every basin seventy; the weight of all the silver of the vessels was two thousand and four hundred shekels, by the scale of the holy place;
each silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each basin seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
such that each dish had one hundred thirty shekels of silver, and each bowl had seventy shekels, that is, putting all of the vessels from silver together, two thousand four hundred shekels, by the weight of the Sanctuary,
Centum triginta siclorum erat patina una argentea, et septuaginta phiala una: omne argentum vasorum, duo millia, et quadringenti sicli, secundum siclure sanctuarii.

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Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy,.... See Gill on Numbers 7:13,
all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; which amounted to 1,139 ounces and four drachms (k), which were worth about three hundred pounds of our money.
(k) Vid. Scheuchzer. ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 366.)

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