Numbers 3:46-47
46 And a as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites, 47 you shall take b five shekels ▼
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A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
per head; you shall take them according to d the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs
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A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
),
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