Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
A shekel is
Bible References
A shekel is
Leviticus 27:25
And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel--the shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
Numbers 3:47
you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs [per] shekel.
Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel [shall weigh] twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels [and] ten and five shekels, [that] shall make the mina for you.