²⁶ one beka per person,^(A) that is, half a shekel,^[a] according to the sanctuary shekel,^(B) from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more,^(C) a total of 603,550 men.^(D)

⁴⁷ collect five shekels^[a](A) for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel,^(B) which weighs twenty gerahs.^(C)

The Temple Tax

²⁴ After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax^(A) came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”