Exodus 38:26
Good News Translation
This amount equaled the total paid by all persons enrolled in the census, each one paying the required amount, weighed according to the official standard. There were 603,550 men twenty years old or older enrolled in the census.

New Revised Standard Version
a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel), for everyone who was counted in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty men.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone who was counted paid the required amount, and there was a total of 603,550 men who were 20 years old or older.

New American Bible
one bekah apiece, that is, a half-shekel, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, was received from everyone who was enrolled, of twenty years or more, namely, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

bekah

Exodus 30:13,15,16 And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord. . . .

every man.

Numbers 1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

six hundred

Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Numbers 1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

Context
The Cost of the Tabernacle
25And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms. 26There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.27A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent being reckoned for every socket.…
Cross References
Matthew 17:24
He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own children, or of strangers?

Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Exodus 30:12
When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Exodus 30:13
And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.

Exodus 30:15
The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

Exodus 38:27
A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent being reckoned for every socket.

Numbers 1:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,

Numbers 1:3
From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.

Numbers 1:46
Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

Numbers 2:32
This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army divided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Numbers 26:2
Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.

Numbers 26:51
This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

Exodus 38:25
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