Verse 26

a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

Referenced Verses

• Num 1:46 : 46 even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
• Exod 12:37 : 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
• Exod 30:13 : 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
• Exod 30:15-16 : 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls. 16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."