Exodus 30:13-14
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. 14Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering. Exodus 30:24
24and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a fhin ▼▼A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
of olive oil. Leviticus 5:15
15 h“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, ihe shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued ▼▼Or flock, or its equivalent
in silver shekels, ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
according to the lshekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 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 nshekel of the sanctuary. Leviticus 27:25
25Every valuation shall be according to othe shekel of the sanctuary: ptwenty gerahs ▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
shall make a shekel. Numbers 3:47
47you shall take rfive shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
per head; you shall take them according to tthe shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs ▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
), Numbers 18:16
16And their redemption price v(at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, xwhich is twenty gerahs.
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