Bible Strands
Exodus 38:27
The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative records the final accounting of the sanctuary’s silver during its construction. The text specifies how the collected half-shekel contributions were converted into structural components.
The words — כִּכַּר (ki.Kar) denotes a talent, a large unit of weight, while אַדְנֵי (ad.Nei) refers to the foundational sockets or bases. The verse emphasizes the exact one-to-one correspondence between the hundred talents and the hundred bases.
The thread — This allocation mirrors the detailed specifications for the tabernacle’s structural framework. The same silver bases are specified in Exodus 26:19, Exodus 26:21, and Exodus 26:25 to support the sanctuary’s frames and veil.
Why it lands — The text demands precise accounting of communal resources dedicated to sacred work. It requires the reader to recognize that exact measurement governs the transition from collected contribution to established structure.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Cross-references
- Exodus 26:19 with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
- Exodus 26:21 and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.
- Exodus 26:25 So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
- Exodus 26:32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.