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The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
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A Universal, Required Gift
Commentators explain that this vast amount of silver was not from the freewill offerings, but from the required census tax mentioned in Exodus 30. Every man aged twenty and older contributed a half-shekel, emphasizing the universal participation of the entire community in building the Tabernacle. Scholars calculate this was a very significant sum.
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19th Century
Anglican
The silver ... was an hundred talents. —The silver talent contained 3,000 shekels, as all agree, and as this passage show…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation This was not the offering of…
Presbyterian
The foundation of solid pieces of silver showed the solidity and purity of the truth upon which the church is founded.
Let us regard the Lor…