Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

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Bible References

Five shekels

Numbers 18:16
And those being redeemed from the son of a month, shalt thou redeem according to thy estimation, the silver of five shekels according to the holy shekel, it is twenty gerahs.
Leviticus 27:6
And if from the son of a month, and even to the son of five years, and thy estimation was, the male, five shekels of silver, and for the female, thy estimation, three shekels of silver.

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Numbers 3:50
From the first-born of the sons of Israel he took the silver; five and sixty and three hundred and a thousand, according to the holy shekel.