What does Numbers 3:47 mean?
ESV: you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),
NIV: collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs.
NASB: you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),
CSB: collect five shekels for each person, according to the standard sanctuary shekel--twenty gerahs to the shekel.
NLT: collect five pieces of silver for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).
KJV: 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:)
NKJV: you shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.
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