'Half' in the Bible
Moses took half the blood and put it in bowls, while he sprinkled the other half on the altar.
"They are to make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
"You are to make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
"You are to make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
As for the excess that remains of the curtains of the tent the half curtain that remains is to hang over the back of the tent.
The half cubit that remain on either end of the length of the curtains of the tent is to hang over each side of the tent to cover it.
Each board is to be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
This is what everyone who is registered is to give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel weighs 20 gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD.
The rich person is not to give more, nor is the poor person to give less than the half shekel, when you give a contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.
"You are to take for yourself the finest spices: 500 shekelsby weight of liquid myrrh, half as much fragrant cinnamon (250 shekels), 250 shekels of fragrant reeds,
Each board was ten cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide.
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
He made a Mercy Seat of pure gold two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
Then he made a table of acacia wood two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
a beka a head (a beka is half a shekel, according to the standard used in the sanctuary) for everyone who went through the registration process from 20 years old and older. The total numbered 603,550 bekas.