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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And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them:(the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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