Exodus 30:13
Each one who crosses over to those counted must give a half shekel (using the sanctuary shekel standard, which weighs twenty gerahs). This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.
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In Context
14This offering to the Lord is required from everyone twenty years old and more.
Cross References
Leviticus 27:3The value of a man aged twenty to sixty is fifty shekels of silver (using the sanctuary shekel standard).
Numbers 3:47collect five shekels for each of them (using the sanctuary shekel standard of twenty gerahs).
2 Kings 12:5Let each priest receive the money from those who give, and use it to repair whatever damage is discovered in the Temple.”
Matthew 17:24When they arrived at Capernaum, those who were in charge of collecting the half-shekel Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Your teacher does pay the half-shekel tax, doesn't he?”
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 →