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Summary

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

General references

Bible References

According

Numbers 3:47
collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs).
Leviticus 27:2
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the Lord,

Which is

Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 27:25
Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.

General references

Numbers 3:15
"Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number."

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