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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 7:86

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense, etc.] Which points at the use those spoons or cups were of, namely, to carry incense in them, such as were used on the day of atonement f79: [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; (see Gill on “<040714>Numbers 7:14”); all the gold of the spoons [was] twenty [shekels]; which amounted to forty nine ounces, five drachms, scruples, and eight gains, worth about seventy five pounds of our money.
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