Douay-Rheims Bible: Exodus — Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Notes by Richard Challoner
Chapter 30
SummaryThe altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the tabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the composition of the perfume.
[30:1] An altar to burn incense. . . This burning of incense was an emblem of prayer, ascending to God from an inflamed heart. See Ps. 140.2; Apoc. 5. 8, and 8.4.
[30:13] Half a sicle. . .A sicle or shekel of silver, ( which was also called a stater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which was the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is, about half a crown of English money. The obol, orgerah, was about three halfpence.