“a bekaa head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekelof the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.”
Exodus 38:26 (WEB)
Context Reading
24All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talentsand seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekelof the sanctuary. 25The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talentsand one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,according to the shekel of the sanctuary: 26a bekaa head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekelof the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men. 27The one hundred talentsof silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket. 28From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekelshe made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.