Exodus 30:17

And the Lord said to Moses,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

In Context

16And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

18You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;

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Cross References

Exodus 38:1The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

1 Kings 7:23And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 30:12-17

11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 When 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. 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 . 14 Every one that passeth among them… Read the whole commentary →

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