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28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels[a] he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. 29 The bronze of the offering was seventy talents[b] and two thousand four hundred shekels.[c] 30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,

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Footnotes

  1. 38:28 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.
  2. 38:29 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds
  3. 38:29 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.