They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekelA shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahsa gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:17
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”