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. Exodus 38:26
26a fbeka ▼▼A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams
a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for h603,550 men.
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