Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

Bekah

Every man

General references

Bible References

Bekah

Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.

Every man

Numbers 1:46
all those listed were 603,550.

Six hundred

Exodus 12:37
And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Numbers 1:46
all those listed were 603,550.

General references

Numbers 2:32
These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.
Numbers 11:21
But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'

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