Verse 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).

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.
  • Lev 27:6 : 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.
  • Lev 27:25 : 25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  • Num 18:16 : 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).
  • Ezek 45:12 : 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
  • Num 3:50 : 50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.