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Exodus 38:27 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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. "
Exodus 38:27
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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:
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
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.
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
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Exodus 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"
Exodus 38:2
"And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass."
Exodus 38:3
"And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass."
Exodus 38:4
"And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst"
Exodus 38:5
"And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves."
Exodus 38:6
"And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass."
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