45 So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel— 46 all those listed were (A)603,550.

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45 All the Israelites twenty years old or more(A) who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.(B) 46 The total number was 603,550.(C)

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26 a (A)beka[a] a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for (B)603,550 men. 27 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the (C)bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base.

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  1. Exodus 38:26 A beka was about 1/5 ounce or 5.5 grams

26 one beka per person,(A) that is, half a shekel,[a] according to the sanctuary shekel,(B) from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more,(C) a total of 603,550 men.(D) 27 The 100 talents of silver were used to cast the bases(E) for the sanctuary and for the curtain—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent for each base.

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  1. Exodus 38:26 That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.7 grams