47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):


In Context

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

45 |Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,

47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

48 and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.|

49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

Numbers 3:47 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:47Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take [them:] (the shekel [is] twenty gerahs:)

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:47collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:47Thou shalt take five sides for every head, according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:47thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:47thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll, according to the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them, twenty gerahs the shekel;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:47thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:47Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: the shekel is twenty gerahs.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:47thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll — by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:47You shall even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall you take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)