Currencies
Beqa
The beqa is half a shekel, reckoned by the sanctuary shekel. At the census each man twenty years and over pays one beqa; 603,550 persons yield a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels of silver.
Category
Currencies
Value
Half a shekel by the sanctuary shekel
First mention
Exodus 38:26
Exodus 38SilverCensus
Scripture references
- Exodus 38:26
one beqa per head, half a shekel reckoned by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone of twenty years and over included in the census, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty persons.