Numbers 18:16

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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).”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`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 <FI>is<Fi> .”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 18:16 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Leviticus 27:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
  3. Leviticus 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  4. Numbers 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
  5. Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

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