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Exodus 38:25-31

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 ^abeka ^{▼

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A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams} 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 ^c603,550 men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the ^dbases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base. 28 And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. 29 The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels; 30 with it he made the ^ebases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, ^fthe bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, 31 the ^gbases around the court, and the ^hbases of the gate of the court, all the ⁱpegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.