Exodus 26:19

sockets bases (Ezekiel 41:22 RVm.), or pedestals (cf. Job 38:6 -foundations"; Song of Solomon 5:15 supporting pillars), i.e. solid blocks of silver acc. to Exodus 38:27 weighing a talent (96 lbs.) each resting on the ground, and, naturally, with -sockets" in them to receive the -tenons." A talent of silver, of the sacred standard, weighed probably DB.iii. 422 b, 419 b) about 96 lbs. av.: so that, as a cubit ft. of silver weighs 655 lbs., the talent would amount to about 250 cubic inches, i.e. it might form a block about 7 in. square and 5 in. deep: two such blocks were to stand under each of the frames. Kennedy, however, discarding Exodus 38:27 as part of a late addition to P (see on Exodus 38:24-31), pictures each base as a square plinth, ¾ cubit on the side and a cubit high, the whole forming thus a continuous wall under the frames; the weight of each base in this case would be about 1240 lbs.