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Exodus 30:12
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10 And aAaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”  

The Ransom Money

11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 a“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ba ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no cplague among them when you number them.  
13 aThis is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary b(a shekel is twenty gerahs). cThe half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord.  
14 Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an1 offering to the Lord.
15 The arich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.  
16 And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and ashall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be ba memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”  
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 30:12.

Exodus 30:11-16

The people of Jerusalem made a formal commitment to pay the Temple tax. We have two issues with this. The first is technical. In the Pentateuch, according to Exodus 30:11-16, the Temple tax had been fixed at one half a shekel. Here in Nehemiah 10:32, it is one third of a shekel. It is a minor point, but an interesting question. Since not even the priests were free to alter God’s law, some explanation is in order. Usually this is explained by assuming that the Jerusalem and Babylonian shekels had different values. This is not unlikely. Another explanation is by noting that in Exodus the tax was to be paid only when a census was taken, while in Nehemiah it was to be paid annually. Those are two possible reasons.

Excerpted from One Nation Under God (Part 2)



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 30:12:

Matthew 17:24-27


 
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