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Exodus 30:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the LORD. "

Exodus 30:13

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11 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them.

13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.

14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

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Exodus 38:26

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"a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men."

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Numbers 3:47

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"you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);"

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Numbers 18:16

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"You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs."

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Leviticus 27:25

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"All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel."

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2 Kings 12:4

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"Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the LORD’s house, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the LORD’s house,"

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Leviticus 5:15

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"“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding the LORD’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering."

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From This Chapter

Exodus 30:1

"“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood."

Exodus 30:2

"Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it."

Exodus 30:3

"You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it."

Exodus 30:4

"You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it."

Exodus 30:5

"You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold."

Exodus 30:6

"You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you."

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