'Half' in the Bible

Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

“They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.

Ten cubits shall be the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

“Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

Ten cubits was the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

Then he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.