New English Translation

Numbers 3:47-51 New English Translation (NET)

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

48. And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”

49. So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

50. From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

51. Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.