Verse 16

And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel(which is twenty gerahs).

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 30:13 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Lev 27:2-7 : 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the LORD, 3 the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. 4 If the person is a female, the conversion value is thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the conversion value of the male is twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6 If the person is one month old up to five years old, the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver, and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver. 7 If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
  • Lev 27:25 : 25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.