Bilangan 3:47

3:47 collect ¹  five shekels for each ²  one individually; you are to collect ³  this amount ⁴  in the currency of the sanctuary shekel (this shekel is twenty gerahs). ⁵ 

Bilangan 26:1

A Second Census Required

26:1 ⁶ After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ⁷ 

Bilangan 26:7

26:7 These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730. ⁸ 

Bilangan 28:10

28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, ⁹  besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

[3:47]  ¹ tn The verb again is the perfect tense in sequence; the meaning of “take” may be interpreted here with the sense of “collect.”

[3:47]  ² tn The idea is expressed simply by repetition: “take five, five, shekels according to the skull.” They were to collect five shekels for each individual.

[3:47]  ³ tn The verb form now is the imperfect of instruction or legislation.

[3:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “them,” referring to the five shekels.

[3:47]  ⁵ sn The sanctuary shekel was first mentioned in Exod 30:13. The half-shekel of Exod 38:26 would then be 10 gerahs. Consequently, the calculations would indicate that five shekels was about two ounces of silver for each person. See R. B. Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” BA 22 (1951): 22-40, and “The Scale-Weights from Ophel, 1963-1964,” PEQ 97 (1965): 128-39.

[26:1]  ⁶ sn The breakdown of ch. 26 for outlining purposes will be essentially according to the tribes of Israel. The format and structure is similar to the first census, and so less comment is necessary here.

[26:1]  ⁷ tc The MT has also “saying.”

[26:7]  ⁸ sn The Reubenites had decreased from 46,500 to 43,730.

[28:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “the burnt offering of the Sabbath by its Sabbath.”