5.7 grams per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men.
Everyone who is registered must pay half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel (twenty gerahs to the shekel). This half shekel is a contribution to the Lord.
‘When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for his life to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.
There were 3,400 kilograms of silver used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain #– #one hundred bases from 3,400 kilograms, 34 kilograms for each base.