Numbers 3:47
You must use the shekel of the sanctuary as your standard weight. The shekel equals twenty gerahs.
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In Context
48You must give the price of redemption that you paid to Aaron and his sons.”
Cross References
Exodus 30:13Everyone who is counted in the census is to pay half a shekel of silver, according to the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is the same as twenty gerahs). This half shekel will be an offering to Yahweh.
Leviticus 27:25All the valuations must be set by the weight of the sanctuary shekel. Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel.
Numbers 7:13His sacrifice was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, by the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. Both of these objects were full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.
Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will be twenty gerahs; sixty shekels will make a mina for you.
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 →