Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

New Life Version

Numbers 3:47

Take five pieces of silver for each, by the weight of silver agreed upon for the meeting tent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Firstborn;   Gerah;   Priest;   Redemption;   Shekel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Shekels;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - First Born, the;   Money;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Redeem, Redemption;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gerah;   Shekel;   Weights;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Weights and Measures;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Banking;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Firstborn;   Job;   Moses;   Number;   Poll;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Firstborn;   Presentation ;   Sacrifices ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   Poll;   Redemption;   Weights and Measures;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gerah;   Poll;   Ransom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Birthright;   Primogeniture;   Shekel;   Weights and Measures;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
King James Version
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:)
Lexham English Bible
you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs per shekel.
New Century Version
collect two ounces of silver for each of the 273 sons. Use the measure as set by the Holy Place, which is two-fifths of an ounce.
New English Translation
collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs).
Amplified Bible
you shall take five shekels apiece, per head, you shall take them in terms of the sanctuary shekel (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
New American Standard Bible
you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt also take fiue shekels for euery person: after the weight of the Sanctuarie shalt thou take it: ye shekel conteineth twenty gerahs.
Legacy Standard Bible
you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
Contemporary English Version
For each one, you are to collect five pieces of silver, weighed according to the official standards.
Complete Jewish Bible
you are to take five shekels [two ounces] for each of these (use the sanctuary shekel, which is equal to twenty gerahs).
Darby Translation
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, according to the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them,—twenty gerahs the shekel;
Easy-to-Read Version
Using the official measure, collect five shekels of silver for each of the 273 people. (The shekel by the official measure weighs 20 gerahs.) Collect that silver from the Israelites.
English Standard Version
you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),
George Lamsa Translation
You shall take five shekels apiece by the poll, by the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs).
Good News Translation
For each one pay five pieces of silver, according to the official standard,
Christian Standard Bible®
collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel—twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Literal Translation
you shall even take five shekels apiece, by the head; you shall take by the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
aboue the nombre of the Leuites, shalt thou take, euen fyue Sycles of euery heade, after the Sycle of the Sanctuary (one Sycle is worth twentye Geras)
American Standard Version
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
Bible in Basic English
Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take fiue sicles of euery head, after the wayght of the sanctuarie, the sicle contaynyng twentie gerahs.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them--the shekel is twenty gerahs.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt euen take fiue shekels a piece, by the polle, after the shekel of the Sanctuary shalt thou take them; the shekel is twenty gerahs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.
English Revised Version
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
Berean Standard Bible
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou schalt take fyue ciclis bi ech heed, at the mesure of seyntuarie; a sicle hath xx. halpens;
Young's Literal Translation
thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel [is];
Update Bible Version
you shall take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
New King James Version
you shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.
New Living Translation
collect five pieces of silver for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).
New Revised Standard
you shall accept five shekels apiece, reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, a shekel of twenty gerahs.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, - by the shekel of the sanctuary, shalt thou take it, twenty gerahs to the shekel;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt take five sicles for every bead, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
Revised Standard Version
you shall take five shekels apiece; reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

Contextual Overview

40 The Lord said to Moses, "Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel a month old and older. Write down their names. 41 Take the Levites for Me, instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel. I am the Lord. And take the cattle of the Levites instead of all the first-born among the cattle of the people of Israel." 42 So Moses numbered all the first-born among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had told him. 43 The number of names of all the first-born males a month old and older was 22,273. 44 Then the Lord said to Moses, 45 "Take the Levites instead of all the first-born sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites. The number of the Levites will be Mine. I am the Lord. 46 There are 273 first-born of the sons of Israel, who are more in number than the Levites. You must pay the price for each of them. 47 Take five pieces of silver for each, by the weight of silver agreed upon for the meeting tent. 48 Give the money, the price of those who are more in number than the Levites, to Aaron and his sons." 49 So Moses took the money to pay for those who were more in number than the Levites.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

five shekels: Numbers 18:16, Leviticus 27:6

the shekel: Numbers 3:50, Exodus 30:13, Leviticus 27:25, Ezekiel 45:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:24 - the shekel Exodus 38:24 - the shekel Numbers 3:46 - the two hundred 1 Chronicles 23:24 - by their polls

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall even take five shekels apiece the poll,.... Or head; every firstborn, or his parent for him, was bound to pay five shekels, which were about eleven or twelve shillings of our money, and which was afterwards settled as the price of such a redemption,

Numbers 18:16;

after the shekel of the sanctuary shall thou take [them]; being full weight according to the standard there kept:

the shekel [is] twenty gerahs; Numbers 18:16- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This redemption money (see the marginal references) would perhaps be exacted from the parents of the “youngest” children of the 22,273 Numbers 3:43. The cattle of the Levites was doubtless taken in the gross as an equivalent for the first-born cattle of the other tribes, which of course, no less than the first-born of men, belonged to the Lord; and in future would have to be redeemed Numbers 18:15; Deuteronomy 15:19.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile