Discovery BoxExodus 12:18 
Context12:18 In the first month, 1 from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
Exodus 26:19
Context26:19 and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise 2 two bases under the next frame for its two projections;
Exodus 30:13
Context30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered 3 is to pay this: a half shekel 4 according to the shekel of the sanctuary 5 (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering 6 to the Lord.
Exodus 36:24
Context36:24 He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames – two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise 7 two bases under the next frame for its two projections,
Exodus 38:15
Context38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, 8 the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.
Exodus 38:24
Context38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary 9 (namely, 10 the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, 11 according to the sanctuary shekel.
Exodus 38:26
Context38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, 12 according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 13 603,550 in all. 14
1 tn “month” has been supplied.
2 tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
3 sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.
4 sn The half shekel weight of silver would be about one-fifth of an ounce (6 grams).
5 sn It appears that some standard is in view for the amount of a shekel weight. The sanctuary shekel is sometimes considered to be twice the value of the ordinary shekel. The “gerah,” also of uncertain meaning, was mentioned as a reference point for the ancient reader to understand the value of the required payment. It may also be that the expression meant “a sacred shekel” and looked at the purpose more – a shekel for sanctuary dues. This would mean that the standard of the shekel weight was set because it was the traditional amount of sacred dues (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 333). “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams…Whether an official standard is meant [by ‘sanctuary shekel’] or whether the sanctuary shekel had a different weight than the ‘ordinary’ shekel is not known” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181).
6 tn Or “contribution” (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah).
7 tn The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”
8 tn Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15; Josh 8:22, 33; 1 Kgs 10:19-20; Ezek 45:7).
9 tn These words form the casus pendens, or independent nominative absolute, followed by the apodosis beginning with the vav (ו; see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 469).
10 tn Heb “and it was.”
11 sn There were 3000 shekels in a talent, and so the total weight here in shekels would be 87,730 shekels of gold. If the sanctuary shekel was 224 grs., then this was about 40,940 oz. troy. This is estimated to be a little over a ton (cf. NCV “over 2,000 pounds”; TEV “a thousand kilogrammes”; CEV “two thousand two hundred nine pounds”; NLT “about 2,200 pounds”), although other widely diverging estimates are also given.
12 sn The weight would be about half an ounce.
13 tn Heb “upward.”
14 tn The phrase “in all” has been supplied.
