Numbers 3:47

Thou shalt take five sides for every head, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

46But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

48And then shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of them that are above.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:13And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:25All estimation shall be made according to the side of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

Numbers 7:13The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering:

Ezekiel 45:12And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sides, and five and twenty sides, and fifteen sides make a mna.

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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