Leviticus 27:3
The value of a man aged twenty to sixty is fifty shekels of silver (using the sanctuary shekel standard).
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4The value of a woman is thirty shekels.
Cross References
Exodus 30:13Each one who crosses over to those counted must give a half shekel (using the sanctuary shekel standard, which weighs twenty gerahs). This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 5:15“If any of you neglects unintentionally anything that the Lord has declared belong to him and are holy, you must bring your guilt offering to the Lord: a ram without defects from your herd or the equivalent value in silver shekels (according to the sanctuary shekel standard). It is a guilt offering.
Leviticus 27:14If you dedicate your house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will decide its value, whether high or low. Whatever value the priest places on it remains final.
Numbers 3:47collect five shekels for each of them (using the sanctuary shekel standard of twenty gerahs).
2 Kings 12:4Joash told the priests, “Collect together all the money that is brought as holy offerings to the Lord's Temple, whether the census money, the money from individual vows, or the money brought as a voluntary donation to the Lord's Temple.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:2-14
The Law Concerning Vows. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even… Read the whole commentary →