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Numbers 3:45-47
English Standard Version Anglicised
Numbers 3:45-47
English Standard Version Anglicised
45 (A)“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord. 46 And (B)as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites, 47 you shall take (C)five shekels[a] per head; you shall take them according to (D)the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs[b]),
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- Numbers 3:47 A shekel was about 2/5 of an ounce or 11 grams
- Numbers 3:47 A gerah was about 1/50 of an ounce or 0.6 gram
Numbers 3:45-47
New International Version
Numbers 3:45-47
New International Version
45 “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites are to be mine.(A) I am the Lord.(B) 46 To redeem(C) the 273 firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, 47 collect five shekels[a](D) for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel,(E) which weighs twenty gerahs.(F)
Footnotes
- Numbers 3:47 That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams
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