Exodus 30:11

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:11 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 30:11

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Continued his discourse; or, there being some intermission, reassumed it:

saying;
as follows.

Exodus 30:11 In-Context

9 And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, and offering made by fire, a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink-offering upon it.

10 And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

12 If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.

13 And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.