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Exodus 30:13 KJV
Exodus · chapter 30 · verse 13
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.Exodus 30:13 · King James Version
Exodus 30:13 in context
11And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
13This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
14Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sanctuaryqôdesha sacred place or thingH6944 →
- numberedpâqadto visitH6485 →
- offeringtᵉrûwmâha present , especially in sacrifice or as tributeH8641 →
- passethʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- shekelsheqelprobably a weightH8255 →
- twentyʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
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Some observe that the repetition of those words, The Lord spoke unto Moses, here and afterwards (Exo 30:17, Exo 30:22, Exo 30:34), intimates that God did not deliver these precepts to Moses in the mount, in a continued discourse, but with many intermissions, giving him time either to write what was said to him or at…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-16