Exodus 30:13-16

The Census Tax

13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel 1 according to the w shekel of the sanctuary (the x shekel is twenty gerahs), 2 y half 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 y the 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 z give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to a remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives."

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 38:24
    All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
    Leviticus 5:15
    If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
    Leviticus 27:3
    Then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
    Leviticus 27:25
    Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 27:25
    Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
    Numbers 3:47
    You shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs).
    Numbers 18:16
    And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
    Ezekiel 45:12
    The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 38:26
    A beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
    Matthew 17:24
    When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the tax?
    Genesis 24:22
    When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 30:13
    Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 38:25 - 31
    The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 28:12
    And you shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for remembrance.
    Exodus 39:7
    And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
    Numbers 16:40
    To be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company - as the Lord said to him through Moses.
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