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Sifrei Bamidbar 55

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Bamidbar 7:86) "Golden spoons, twelve": Why is this mentioned? (Ibid. 14) "One spoon ten gold": It is of gold, and its weight is of silver (shekels). You say it is of gold and its weight is of silver. But perhaps it is of silver and its weight is of gold! It is, therefore, written (Ibid. 86) "All the gold of the spoons — one hundred and twenty." It is not the second assumption that is correct, but the first. It is of gold, and its weight is of silver. "Golden spoons": the same that were donated, no unfitness having befallen them. And it is accounted to each one as if he had offered twelve dishes, twelve bowls, and twelve spoons.

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Mechilta, Sifra and Sifrei, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein. CC BY. Text from Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English translation: Sifrei Bamidbar, translated by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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