Exodus 38:26-28

New Living Translation

²⁶ This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday. ²⁷ The hundred bases for the frames of the sanctuary walls and for the posts supporting the inner curtain required 7,500 pounds of silver, about 75 pounds for each base.^{[b] 28} The remaining 45 pounds^[c] of silver was used to make the hooks and rings and to overlay the tops of the posts.