the shekel: Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47
twenty shekels: That is, 20+25+15=60; for the maneh: as a weight was equal to sixty shekels, though as a coin it was only equal to fifty, weighing about 2 lb. 6 oz.; and reckoning the shekel at 2s 6d being in value 6£ 5s.