13This 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 11-16)Some observe that the repetition of those words, The Lord spoke unto Moses , here and afterwards ( Exod. 30:17 , 22 , 34 ), intimates that God did not deliver these precepts to Moses in the mount, in a continued discourse, but with many intermissions, giving him time either to write what was said to him or at least to charge his memory with it. Christ gave instructions to his disciples as they wer...
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