Exo 30:13-14 | ESV | STEP | Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this : half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord .

c Lev. 27:25; Num. 3:47; 18:16; Ezek. 45:12

Exodus 30:13-14

13 Each 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. 14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.