Exodus 38:24

The gold. This amounted to 29 talents, and 730 shekels, or (as the talent contained Exo 3000 shekels) 87,730 shekels, i.e. if the -sacred" shekel (p. 333) weighed 224 grs., c.40,940 oz. troy, which, even at the present value of gold, would be worth nearly £ 160,000.

the offering properly, the wave-offering; see on Exodus 35:22. So v.29.

the sacred shekel] See on Exodus 30:13; and cf. DB.iv. 906 a.