Units
Talent
The talent is a unit of weight. Gold for the sanctuary is twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels; census silver is a hundred talents (one talent per socket) and 1,775 shekels; bronze is seventy talents and 2,400 shekels. The lamp-stand used a talent of pure gold.
Category
Units
Value
Weight of gold for the lamp-stand and its accessories
First mention
Exodus 25:39
Exodus 25, 37-38WeightGoldSilverBronze
Scripture references
- Exodus 25:39
You will use a talent of pure gold for the lamp-stand and all its accessories;
- Exodus 37:24
He made the lamp-stand and all its accessories from a talent of pure gold.
- Exodus 38:24
The amount of gold used for the work, for the entire work for the sanctuary (the gold consecrated for the purpose) was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel.