a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men. Cross References Matthew 17:24 After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?" Exodus 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. Exodus 30:12 "When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered. Exodus 30:13 Everyone 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. Exodus 30:15 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less. Exodus 38:27 The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil--100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base. Numbers 1:2 "Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. Numbers 1:3 You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions--everyone who can serve in Israel's army. Numbers 1:46 And all those counted totaled 603,550. Numbers 2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550. Numbers 26:2 "Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers--all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel." Numbers 26:51 These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all. Treasury of Scripture A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. bekah Exodus 30:13,15,16 every man. Numbers 1:46 six hundred Exodus 12:37 Numbers 1:46 |