^3:47collect⁵⁴ five shekels for each⁵⁵ one individually; you are to collect⁵⁶ this amount⁵⁷ in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs).⁵⁸

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Footnotes

54 The verb again is the perfect tense in sequence; the meaning of “take” may be interpreted here with the sense of “collect.”
55 The idea is expressed simply by repetition: “take five, five, shekels according to the skull.” They were to collect five shekels for each individual.
56 The verb form now is the imperfect of instruction or legislation.
57 Heb “them,” referring to the five shekels.
58 The sanctuary shekel was first mentioned in Exod 30:13. The half-shekel of Exod 38:26 would then be 10 gerahs. Consequently, the calculations would indicate that five shekels was about two ounces of silver for each person. See R. B. Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” 22 (1951): 22–40, and “The Scale-Weights from Ophel, 1963–1964,” 97 (1965): 128–39.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),

NIVNew International Version (2011)

collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel—twenty gerahs to the shekel.

NLTNew Living Translation

collect five pieces of silver for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs per shekel.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

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