Exodus 38:26

The weight was (appointed) by capitation; a half shekel, in the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed to the adnumberments from twenty years (old) and upward, for six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

In Context

25And the silver of the numbered ones of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, in the shekels of the sanctuary.

27And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil (or tent), a hundred bases with a hundred talents, a talent for a base.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramases to Succoth; about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children (or families);

Exodus 30:15He who is rich shall not increase (it), and he who is poor shall not diminish from the half shekel in presenting the separation before the Lord to propitiate for your souls.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 38:22-31

21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest. 22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses. 23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen. 24 All the gold… Read the whole commentary →

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