26 a (A)beka[a] a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for (B)603,550 men.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams

The Temple Tax

24 (A)When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of (B)the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”

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22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel,[a] and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:22 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

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