So David paid Ornan for the site gold shekels valued at six hundred. But in the book of Samuel [it says], “So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen with fifty silver shekels” (2 Samuel 24:24)! Our Sages, of blessed memory (b. Zevaḥim 116b), say: “He collected fifty from each tribe, six hundred silver [shekel-pieces] all together.” But because their value in weight was that of shekels of gold, it says “gold shekels.” (Indeed, they also say [Sifrei Deut 70]: “One verse says ‘in one of your tribal territories’ [Deut 12:14], and another verse says ‘from all your tribes’ [Deut 12:5]. It is in this connection that Rabbi Judah says: Money from all your tribes; the specially designated Temple in the territory of one tribe.”) “Rabbi says in the name of Rabbi Jose son of Dustai: The oxen, the wood, and the place designated for the altar were for fifty, and the [area for] the entire Temple for six hundred.” The language of the verses proves Rabbi correct. For in the book of Samuel it says, “the threshing floor and the oxen with fifty silver shekels,” from which it seems that the threshing floor and the oxen were for fifty; and here it says, “So David paid Ornan for the site gold shekels [valued at six hundred],” meaning the entire site. For the altar was on the [site of] the threshing floor (v. 18), whereas the Temple was built on the entire field.