²⁵ The whole community of Israel gave 7,545 pounds^[a] of silver, as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel.

²⁶ This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.