Numbers 3:47
collect five shekels for each of them (using the sanctuary shekel standard of twenty gerahs).
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In Context
46In order to buy back the 273 firstborn Israelites who are more than the number of Levites,
48He handed the money over to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for the extra Israelites.”
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 27:25(All values will use the sanctuary shekel standard of twenty gerahs to the shekel.)
Numbers 7:13His offering was a silver plate that weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and a silver bowl that weighed seventy shekels (using the sanctuary shekel standard). They were both filled with the best flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering.
Ezekiel 45:12Twenty gerahs make one shekel. Sixty shekels make one mina.
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 →