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Gerah
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- A weight equal to thirteen and seven-tenths grains, Paris
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Also a coin equivalent to about three cents American money and three half-pence English money
Ex 30:13; Lev 27:25; Num 3:47
13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Exodus 30:1325 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Leviticus 27:2547 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:)
Numbers 3:47
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
