¹² The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.^[a] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.^[b]

¹³ Each person who is counted must give a small piece of silver as a sacred offering to the Lord. (This payment is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)

⁴⁷ collect five pieces of silver^[a] for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).

²⁵ (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel,^[a] which equals twenty gerahs.)