Exodus 30:13
13Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
according to the bshekel of the sanctuary (the cshekel is twenty gerahs), ▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
ehalf a shekel as an offering to the Lord. Leviticus 27:3
3then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver, according to the gshekel of the sanctuary. Leviticus 27:25
25Every valuation shall be according to hthe shekel of the sanctuary: itwenty gerahs ▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
shall make a shekel.
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