Offerings for Priests and Levites
Numbers 18:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.5 shekels is approximately 2 ounces or 57 grams of silver.20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams).
- KJV
- And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
- WEB
- You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.A gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains.
- ASV
- And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
- LSV
- And their ransomed ones from a son of a month, you ransom with your valuation [for] five shekels of silver, by the shekel of the holy place; it [is] twenty gerahs.
- YLT
- 'And their ransomed ones from a son of a month, thou dost ransom with thy valuation, of silver, five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs it [is].
- DBY
- And those that are to be ransomed from a month old shalt thou ransom, according to thy valuation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
- DRC
- And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five sicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
- GNV
- And those that are to bee redeemed, shalt thou redeeme from the age of a moneth, according to thy estimation, for the money of fiue shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie, which is twentie gerahs.
- JPS
- And their redemption-money — from a month old shalt thou redeem them — shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary — the same is twenty gerahs.
- LXXE
- And the redemption of them shall be from a month old; their valuation of five shekels—it is twenty oboli according to the holy shekel.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וּפְדוּיָו֙ מִבֶּן־חֹ֣דֶשׁ תִּפְדֶּ֔ה בְּעֶ֨רְכְּךָ֔ כֶּ֛סֶף חֲמֵ֥שֶׁת שְׁקָלִ֖ים בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים גֵּרָ֖ה הֽוּא׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἡ λύτρωσις αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ μηνιαίου· ἡ συντίμησις πέντε σίκλων, κατὰ τὸν σίκλον τὸν ἅγιον εἴκοσι ὀβολοί εἰσι.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PriestEstimate; EstimationGerahNumberFirstborn; FirstlingFirst-born, Redemption ofTitheFirstbornFirst Born, TheMoney
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 30:13Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
- Leviticus 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
- Leviticus 27:2–7“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons, if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be…
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