OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 3:47

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you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

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A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.

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