Numbers 18:16 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 18:16

You are to pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.

BSB

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ASV

And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).

KJV

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Shalt thou redeem - for the money of five shekels - Redemption of the first-born is one of the rites which is still practiced among the Jews. According to Leo of Modena, it is performed in the following manner: - When the child is thirty days old, the father sends for one of the descendants of Aaron: several persons being assembled on the occasion, the father brings a cup containing several pieces of gold and silver coin. The priest then takes the child into his arms, and addressing himself to the mother, says: Is this thy son? Mother. Yes. Priest.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Those that are to be redeemed - Namely, of men only, not of unclean beasts, as is manifest from the time and price of redemption here mentioned, both which agree to men; the time, ver. 16, the price, chap. iii, 46, 47, but neither agree to unclean beasts, which were to be redeemed with a sheep, Exod. xiii, 13, and that after it was eight days old.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּפְדוּיָו֙	u.fe.du.Yav	and redemption price its	H6299 →
מִבֶּן־	mi.ben-	from a son of	H1121 →
חֹ֣דֶשׁ	Cho.desh	a month	H2320 →
תִּפְדֶּ֔ה	tif.Deh	you will redeem [it]	H6299 →
בְּעֶ֨רְכְּךָ֔	be.'Er.ke.kha	by valuation your	H6187 →
כֶּ֛סֶף	Ke.sef	[will be] silver	H3701 →
חֲמֵ֥שֶׁת	cha.Me.shet	five	H2568 →
שְׁקָלִ֖ים	she.ka.Lim	shekels	H8255 →
בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל	be.She.kel	by [the] shekel of	H8255 →
הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ	ha.Ko.desh	the holy place	H6944 →
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים	'es.Rim	[is] twenty	H6242 →
גֵּרָ֖ה	ge.Rah	gerah[s]	H1626 →
הֽוּא׃	Hu'	it	H1931 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
leads to
- Exodus 30:13
  Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
leads to
- Leviticus 27:25
  Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 3:47
  you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 45:12
  The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 38:26
  a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
- Matthew 17:24
  After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”
Through
Numbers 3:47
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
leads to
- Leviticus 27:6
  Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
- Numbers 3:50
  He collected the money from the firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

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02Original language & word study

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06About Numbers

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Numbers