What was the sanctuary shekel?
Exodus 30:13
ESV - 13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
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Asked November 21 2013
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S. Michael Houdmann
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Exodus 30:13 speaks of a shekel of the sanctuary, stating, "Each one who crosses over to those already counted [in the census] is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which wei...
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