The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:39

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it. The candlestick, with all its appurtenances, was to weigh exactly a talent of gold. The value of the Hebrew gold talent is supposed to have been between 10,000l.

and 11,000l. of our money.

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