OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 47

Numbers 3:47

World English Bible Updated

you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Numbers 3:47 in context

Numbers 3:44–50

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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am the LORD.

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For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

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you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.”

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Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

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from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
  2. A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

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