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Numbers 18:16
Numbers 18:16 is verse 16 of Numbers chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
5 shekels is approximately 2 ounces or 57 grams of silver.
20 gerahs is equivalent to one shekel (approximately 0.4 ounces or 11.4 grams).
King James Version
And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
World English Bible
You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.
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
Numbers 18:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.
15 The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
16 You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
18 And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Leviticus 27:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
Leviticus 27:3if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Leviticus 27:4Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27:5And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:7And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
Exodus 30:13Everyone 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.
Leviticus 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.