Numbers 3:47

47 take .v. sycles of euery pece after the sycle of ye holy place .xx. geras the sycle.

Numbers 3:47 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:47

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; (See Gill on Leviticus 27:25).

Numbers 3:47 In-Context

45 take the leuites for all the fyrstborne of the childern of Israel ad the catell of the leuites for their catell: and the leuites shalbe myne whiche am the Lorde.

46 And for the redemynge of the two hundred and .lxxiij. whiche are moo than the leuites in the firstborne of the children of Israel

47 take .v. sycles of euery pece after the sycle of ye holy place .xx. geras the sycle.

48 And geue ye money wherewith the odde numbre of them is redemed vnto Aaron ad his sonnes.

49 And Moses toke the redempcio money of the ouerplus that were moo then the leuites amonge