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.

Bible References

A shekel is

Leviticus 27:25
And all thy valuation is by the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs is the shekel.
Numbers 3:47
thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;
Ezekiel 45:12
And, the shekel is twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels -- is your maneh.