Numbers 26:2 Cross References - ISV

² “Take a census of the entire community of Israel from the age of 20 years and above, according to each ancestral tribe, counting everyone who is able to go out to war in Israel.”

¹¹ Offerings for the TentThe LORD told Moses, ¹² “When you take a census of the Israelis to register them, each is to give a ransom for himself to the LORD when they’re registered so there won’t be a plague among them when they’re registered. ¹³ This is what everyone who is registered is to give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel weighs 20 gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD. ¹⁴ All who are registered, 20 years of age and older, are to give a contribution to the LORD. ¹⁵ The rich person is not to give more, nor is the poor person to give less than the half shekel, when you give a contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves. ¹⁶ You are to take the atonement money from the Israelis and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, and it is to be a memorial for the Israelis in the LORD’s presence to make atonement for yourselves.”

²⁵ The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the standard used in the sanctuary; ²⁶ a beka a head (a beka is half a shekel, according to the standard used in the sanctuary) for everyone who went through the registration process from 20 years old and older. The total numbered 603,550 bekas.

² “Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one, ³ from 20 years and upward. You and Aaron are to register everyone in Israel who is able to go to war, company by company.