All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Parallel translations
- KJV And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
- BSB Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- NKJV And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- NASB Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
- NLT (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)
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Quick answer
All valuations used the standard sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs. A fixed standard kept every assessment fair and uniform.
Overview
By anchoring all valuations to the sanctuary shekel, the law ensured honest, consistent measurement across every vow. A single divine standard guarded against fraud and favoritism in matters of worship. God's insistence on just weights here reflects his unchanging righteousness, by which all things are rightly measured.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 30:13They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
- Num 18:16You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.
- Num 3:47you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs ):
- Ezek 45:12The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
- Lev 27:3your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
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