Numbers 3:47

thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachma, twenty oboli to the shekel.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the firstborn of the sons of Israel;

48And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and to his sons, the ransom of those who exceed in number among them.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:13And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachma which is according to the didrachma of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachma, but the half of the didrachma is the offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:25And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachma shall be twenty oboli.

Numbers 7:13And he brought his gift, one silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat offering.

Ezekiel 45:12And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and 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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