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Exodus 30:13 (Listen)

13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel1 according to the wshekel of the sanctuary (the xshekel is twenty gerahs),2 yhalf a shekel as an offering to the Lord.

Footnotes

[1] 30:13 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
[2] 30:13 A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram

Exodus 38:26 (Listen)

26 a gbeka1 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.

Footnotes

[1] 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams