The Lord's Word for Make or Do

The Lord said to Moshe take the following fine spices 500 shekels of liquid mare half as much. I love that we're just getting to the good stuff. Yeah, this is a bit of a tongue twister. So anything jumping out at anyone? I'm still thinking about Sean Connery. so just say. Half as much. This is the that second use of half, which is really interesting because it seems pretty superfluous. Like why do we need to know that 250 is half of 500? like, you know, why is that there?