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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 7:85

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Each charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl seventy, etc.] (See Gill on “<040713>Numbers 7:13”); all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary; which amounted to 1,139 ounces and four drachms f78, which were worth about three hundred pounds of our money.
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