Numbers 3:47

47 accipies quinque siclos per singula capita ad mensuram sanctuarii siclus habet obolos viginti

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 tolle Levitas pro primogenitis filiorum Israhel et pecora Levitarum pro pecoribus eorum eruntque Levitae mei ego sum Dominus

46 in pretio autem ducentorum septuaginta trium qui excedunt numerum Levitarum de primogenitis filiorum Israhel

47 accipies quinque siclos per singula capita ad mensuram sanctuarii siclus habet obolos viginti

48 dabisque pecuniam Aaron et filiis eius pretium eorum qui supra sunt

49 tulit igitur Moses pecuniam eorum qui fuerant amplius et quos redemerant a Levitis