Exodus 38:26

Easy To Read Version

All the men 20 years old or older were counted. There were 603,550 men, and each man had to pay a tax of 1 beqa [445] of silver. (Using the official measure, a beqa is 1Ú2 shekel. [446])

Cross References

Exodus 12:37

The people of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men. This does not include the children.

Exodus 30:12

“Count the people of Israel so that you will know how many people there are. Every time this is done, every person must make a payment for himself to the Lord. If each person does this, then no terrible thing will happen to the people.

Exodus 30:13

Every person who is counted must pay 1Ú2 shekel. (That is 1Ú2 shekel by the official measure. [299] This shekel weighs 20 gerahs. [300])This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.

Exodus 38:27

They used 3 3Ú4 tons of that silver to make the 100 bases for the {Lord’s} holy place and for the curtain. They used 75 pounds [447] of silver for each base.

Numbers 1:2

“Count all the people of Israel. List the name of each man with his family and his family group.

Numbers 1:3

You and Aaron must count all the men of Israel who are 20 years old or older. (These are the men who serve in the army of Israel.) List them by their group. [2]

Numbers 1:46

The total number of men counted was 603,550 men.

Numbers 2:32

So those were the people of Israel. They were counted by families. The total number of Israelite men in the camps, counted by groups, [25] is 603,550.

Numbers 26:2

He said, “Count the people of Israel. Count all the men who are 20 years old or older and list them by families. These are the men who are able to serve in the army of Israel.”

Numbers 26:51

So the total number of men of Israel was 601,730.

Matthew 17:24

Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. {\cf2\super [249]} In Capernaum some men came to Peter. They were the men that collected the two-drachma tax. {\cf2\super [250]} They asked, “Does your teacher pay the two-drachma tax?”