John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 38:25

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation, etc.] This was not the offering of silver, (<023524>Exodus 35:24) but what was collected in numbering the people, where everyone of twenty years old and upwards paid half a shekel, (<023012>Exodus 30:12-15) the sum [was] an hundred talents, one thousand seven hundred and threescore fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; which, according to Brerewood f1003, make of our money, 37,721 pounds, seventeen shillings, and six pence; according to Waserus f1004, the whole amounted to 150,887 dollars and a half: and so, according to Lundius f1005, the sum is so many imperials, and forty five creutzers or cross pennies.

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