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Exodus 30:11-16

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The Census Tax

11 The LORD said to Moses,
12 1"When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give 2a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel[a] according to the 3shekel of the sanctuary (the 4shekel is twenty gerahs),[b]5half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD's offering.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than 6the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for your lives.
16 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall 7give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to 8remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives."
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Exodus 30:11-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 30

This chapter treats of the altar of incense, its form and use, Ex 30:1-10 of the ransom of the Israelites, with the half shekel when numbered, Ex 30:11-16 of the laver for the priests to wash their hands and feet at before service, Ex 30:17-21 of the anointing oil, the ingredients of it, and what was to be done with it, Ex 30:22-33, and of the perfume, the composition and use of it, Ex 30:34-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

  • 1. Numbers 1:2-4; Numbers 26:2; 2 Samuel 24:2
  • 2. Exodus 21:30; Numbers 31:50; [Psalms 49:7]
  • 3. Exodus 38:24; Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 27:3, 25
  • 4. Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16; Ezekiel 45:12
  • 5. Exodus 38:26; Matthew 17:24; [Genesis 24:22]
  • 6. [See ver. 13 above]
  • 7. See Exodus 38:25-31
  • 8. [Exodus 28:12; Exodus 39:7; Numbers 16:40]

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
  • [b]. A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.