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Exodus 38

Exo 38:1-7—The altar of burnt-offering. (Cf. Exo 27:1.)

Exo 38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

shittim

i.e. acacia.

cubit

One cubit = 1ft. 5.48in.; also Exo 38:9, 11-15, 18.

Exo 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

shittim

i.e. acacia.


Exo 38:8—The laver of brass. (Cf. Exo 30:18.)


Exo 38:9-17—The court. (Cf. Exo 27:9.)


Exo 38:18-31—The gate of the court. (Cf. Exo 27:16.)

Exo 38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

goldtalent

One talent = £6150, or $29,085 [In 1917].

shekel

One shekel = 2s. 9d., or 65 cents [In 1917]; also Exo 38:29.

Exo 38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

silvertalent

One silver talent = £410, or $1,940 [In 1917]; also Exo 38:27.

Exo 38:26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

bekah

One bekah = 1d. 4 1/2 d., or 35 cents.

Exo 38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

silver

Silver thus receives its symbolic meaning—redemption. The sockets were made of the redemption money of the children of Israel. Cf. Exodus 26:19; 30:13-16; Numbers 3:44-51.

sockets

Scofield Exo 26:19, note.

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