Verse 13

Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 27:25 : 25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
• Num 3:47 : 47 collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel(this shekel is twenty gerahs).
• Ezek 45:12 : 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
• Exod 38:26 : 26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.
• Matt 17:24 : 24 The Temple Tax After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said,“Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”
• Matt 27:24 : 24 Jesus is Condemned and Mocked When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said,“I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”