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Exodus 38:28
Exodus 38:28 is verse 28 of Exodus chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
1,775 shekels is approximately 44.6 pounds or 20.2 kilograms of silver.
King James Version
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
World English Bible
From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.
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Exodus 38:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
30 He used it to make the bases for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar and its bronze grating, all the utensils for the altar,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 27:17All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.