John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 3:47

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou shall even take five shekels apiece the poll, etc.] Or head; every firstborn, or his parent for him, was bound to pay five shekels, which were about eleven or twelve shillings of our money, and which was afterwards settled as the price of such a redemption, (<041816>Numbers 18:16); after the shekel of the sanctuary shall thou take [them]; being full weight according to the standard there kept: the shekel [is] twenty gerahs; (see Gill on “<032725>Leviticus 27:25”).

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