Exodus 30:13
English Standard Version
13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel[a] according to the (A)shekel of the sanctuary (the (B)shekel is twenty gerahs),[b] (C)half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
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- Exodus 30:13 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Exodus 30:13 A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
Exodus 38:26
English Standard Version
26 a (A)beka[a] 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 (B)603,550 men.
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- Exodus 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams
Matthew 17:24
English Standard Version
The Temple Tax
24 (A)When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of (B)the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”
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Genesis 24:22
English Standard Version
22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel,[a] and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
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- Genesis 24:22 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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