Scripture · Old Testament
Exodus 30:13
Exodus 30:13 is verse 13 of Exodus chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
A half shekel is approximately 0.2 ounces or 5.7 grams; also in verse 15.
20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams).
King James Version
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
World English Bible
They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains
Read in context
Exodus 30:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
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.
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.
14 Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Numbers 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
Exodus 38:26a 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.
Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”