The Census Tax

Exodus 30

11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 12 h "When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give i a 1 ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, that there may be no j plague among them when you number them. 13 k "This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary l (a shekel is twenty gerahs). m The half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD. 14 "Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an 2 offering to the LORD. 15 "The n rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves. 16 "And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and o shall 3 appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be p a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves."

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 38:25
    And the silver from those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
    Exodus 38:26
    A bekah for each man ( that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone included in the numbering from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
    Numbers 1:2
    Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male individually.
    Numbers 26:2
    "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel."
    2 Samuel 24:2
    So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 31:50
    "Therefore we have brought an offering for the LORD, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."
    Matthew 20:28
    "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
    1 Peter 1:18
    Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers.
    1 Peter 1:19
    But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
  3. Cross References
    2 Samuel 24:15
    So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 17:24
    When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?
  5. Cross References
    Leviticus 27:25
    And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
    Numbers 3:47
    You shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take them in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.
    Ezekiel 45:12
    The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 38:26
    A bekah for each man ( that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone included in the numbering from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
  7. Cross References
    Job 34:19
    Yet He is not partial to princes, Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; For they are all the work of His hands.
    Proverbs 22:2
    The rich and the poor have this in common, The LORD is the maker of them all.
    Ephesians 6:9
    And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 38:25 - 31
    And the silver from those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 16:40
    To be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the LORD had said to him through Moses.
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