Numbers 3:47

Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

In Context

46And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites,

48And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:13And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:25And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Numbers 7:13And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Ezekiel 45:12And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:41-51

40 And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the Lord ) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. 42 And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. 43 And all the firstborn males by the… Read the whole commentary →

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