Numbers 7:85 - Easy To Read Version Each silver plate weighed about 3 1/4 pounds. [114] And each bowl weighed about 1 3/4 pounds. [115] The silver plates and the silver bowls together all weighed about 60 pounds, [116] using the official measure [117] Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Each platter of silver weighing 130 shekels, each basin seventy; all the silver vessels weighed 2,400 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. American Standard Version (1901) each silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; Common English Bible each silver dish weighing one hundred thirty shekels and each basin seventy shekels—all the silver equipment weighed two thousand four hundred shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; Catholic Public Domain Version such that each dish had one hundred thirty shekels of silver, and each bowl had seventy shekels, that is, putting all of the vessels from silver together, two thousand four hundred shekels, by the weight of the Sanctuary, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and each bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the sanctuary. |
“Solomon, I have worked hard making plans for building the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [238]} I have given 3,750 tons {\cf2\super [239]} of gold. And I have given about 37,500 tons {\cf2\super [240]} of silver. I have given so much bronze and iron that it can’t be weighed. And I have given wood and stone. Solomon, you can add to them.
I have given 110 tons {\cf2\super [316]} of pure gold from Ophir. I have given 260 tons {\cf2\super [317]} of pure silver. The silver is for covering the walls of the buildings in the temple.
These are the things they gave for God’s house: 190 tons {\cf2\super [318]} of gold; 375 tons {\cf2\super [319]} of silver; 675 tons {\cf2\super [320]} of bronze; and 3,750 tons {\cf2\super [321]} of iron.
So all those things were the gifts from the leaders of the people of Israel. They brought those things during the time that Moses dedicated the altar [112] by anointing [113] it. They brought 12 silver plates, 12 silver bowls, and 12 gold spoons.
The 12 gold spoons filled with incense [118] weighed 4 ounces [119] each, using the official measure. The 12 gold spoons all together weighed about 3 pounds. [120]
Herodias told her daughter what to ask for. So she said to Herod, “Give me the head of John the Baptizer here on this plate.”