OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 38:29

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29

The bronze of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 29. Seventy. Hebrew confines the number of talents to 70, and allows “two thousand and four hundred sicles.” The Greek interpreters vary.

EXPLANATION

A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

EXPLANATION

70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.

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