John Gill Commentary Exodus 38:25

"And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:" — Exodus 38:25 (ASV)

And the silver of them that were numbered of the
congregation This was not the offering of silver, (Exodus 35:24) but what was collected in numbering the people, where everyone of twenty years old and upwards paid half a shekel, (Exodus 30:12–15) the sum [was] an hundred talents, one thousand seven hundred and threescore
fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary ; which, according to Brerewood ^F17 , make of our money, 37,721 pounds, seventeen shillings, and six pence; according to Waserus ^F18 , the whole amounted to 150,887 dollars and a half: and so, according to Lundius ^F19 , the sum is so many imperials, and forty five creutzers or cross pennies.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: Ut supra. (De Ponder & pretiis Vet. Num. c. 4, 5.)
• F18: Ut supra. (De Antiqu. Numis. l. 2. c. 18.)
• F19: Apud Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 253.