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Exodus 38:27
Exodus 38:27 is verse 27 of Exodus chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
100 talents is approximately 3.77 tons or 3.42 metric tons of silver.
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.
World English Bible
The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.
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Exodus 38:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
26 a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
27 The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
28 With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
29 The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 26:19with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
Exodus 26:21and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.
Exodus 26:25So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
Exodus 26:32Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.