Exodus 38:27
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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.
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with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.