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24 The people brought special offerings of gold totaling 2,193 pounds,[a] as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. This gold was used throughout the Tabernacle.

25 The whole community of Israel gave 7,545 pounds[b] of silver, as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. 26 This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel,[c] based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:24 Hebrew 29 talents and 730 shekels [994 kilograms]. Each shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces or 11 grams.
  2. 38:25 Hebrew 100 talents and 1,775 shekels [3,420 kilograms].
  3. 38:26 Or 0.2 ounces [6 grams].

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