47<\/strong>. the shekel of the sanctuary<\/em> ] Perhaps better the<\/em> sacred shekel.<\/strong> This was the ancient Hebrew-Phoenician shekel. At the time of the writer the official coinage for secular purposes was the Persian-Babylonian, in which the shekel was some 28 grs. heavier. The Hebrew silver shekel used for sacred purposes weighed about 224.6 grs. Its actual value can be roughly estimated from the fact that in our Lord’s time the denarius<\/em> paid to a labourer for a day’s work (Mat 20:2<\/span>) weighed 60 grs.<\/p>\n the shekel is twenty gerahs<\/em> ] The parenthetical explanation was needful to distinguish between the sacred and the official coinage. The grh<\/em> was equivalent to the Greek obolus<\/em> (which is the rendering in the LXX.), and weighed 11.23 grs. A good account of the Hebrew coinage will be found in Hastings’ DB.<\/em> <\/em> iii., art. ‘Money.’<\/p>\n Five shekels apiece<\/B> was the price to be paid for the redemption of a first-born a month old, Num 18:15<\/span>,16<\/span>; but this money, though paid for these 273 persons, was probably paid out of the common stock of all, except lots were cast who should pay, which is not probable in so small a concern accompanied with so much trouble. <\/P> <\/p>\n Thou shall even take five shekels apiece the poll<\/strong>,…. Or head; every firstborn, or his parent for him, was bound to pay five shekels, which were about eleven or twelve shillings of our money, and which was afterwards settled as the price of such a redemption,<\/p>\n Nu 18:16<\/span>;<\/p>\n after the shekel of the sanctuary shall thou take [them]<\/strong>; being full weight according to the standard there kept:<\/p>\n the shekel [is] twenty gerahs<\/strong>; [See comments on Le 27:25]<\/span>.<\/p>\n (47) Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll.<\/strong>It is not stated in what manner the 273 families of whom the redemption money was exacted were determined. Inasmuch, however, as the law of the redemption of the firstborn by the payment of five shekels came into operation from this time (Num. 18:16<\/span>), it seems probable that the money was exacted in the case of those who had been most recently born; or it may be that the matter was decided by lot.<\/p>\n After the shekel of the sanctuary.<\/strong>See Exo. 30:13<\/span>, where the expression occurs for the first time, and the value of the shekel is stated, as in this verse.<\/p>\n 47<\/strong>. <\/strong> Shekel of the sanctuary <\/strong> Or, sacred shekel. Shekel signifies, in the Hebrew, weight in the abstract. But weights soon pass over into a designation of coins, as the English pound. There are in the Old Testament three shekels mentioned the ordinary shekel, the shekel of the sanctuary, and the shekel after the king’s weight. 2Sa 14:26<\/span>. It is impossible to show the exact difference between these. According to the best authorities, the shekel was equal to three English shillings, or seventy-four cents. But if we follow the Septuagint, which translates it by , it equals in English currency one shilling seven pence half penny, or thirty-nine cents. In such case all our estimates of weight and value must be proportionally decreased. The latest conclusions, in Smith’s Dictionary, <\/em> make the silver shekel equal to two hundred and twenty grains, or 220\/417 of the Federal dollar, about fifty-three cents. In the sanctuary were kept the standard weights and measures; hence, “the balances of the sanctuary.”<\/p>\n The Jew’s religion touched his ordinary life at every point, as Christianity should its professors. <\/p>\n Twenty gerahs <\/strong> Gerah <\/em> is Hebrew, meaning berry, <\/em> or grain, <\/em> possibly the seed of the carob-tree. The Mosaic gerah, which is equal to thirteen and seven tenths Paris grains, is equal to four or five beans of the carob, and, according to the Rabbies, to sixteen grains of barley.<\/p>\n shekels. See App-51. <\/p>\n gerahs. See App-51. <\/p>\n five shekels: Num 18:16, Lev 27:6 <\/p>\n the shekel: Num 3:50, Exo 30:13, Lev 27:25, Eze 45:12 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 30:24 – the shekel Exo 38:24 – the shekel Num 3:46 – the two hundred 1Ch 23:24 – by their polls<\/p>\n Num 3:47. Five shekels Which was the price paid for the redemption of a firstborn a month old.<\/p>\n 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: ) 47. the shekel of the sanctuary ] Perhaps better the sacred shekel. This was the ancient Hebrew-Phoenician shekel. 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