And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
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Gill's Exposition
And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate,.... These were also of brass, in all sixty:
and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round…
Barnes' Notes
According to the estimate of the shekel that has here been adopted, the weight of the metals mentioned in this chapter would be nearly as follows, in avoirdupois weight: Gold 1 ton 4 cwt. 2 qrs. 13…
Here we have a breviat of the account which, by Moses's appointment, the Levites took and kept of the gold, silver, and brass, that was brought in for the tabernacle's use, and how it was employed.…
The bronze. This weighed 212,400 shekels, or (see, for the standard of copper or bronze, DB.iv. 906 a) 108,749 oz. av. (c.3 tons).