This they shall give, everyone that passeth among them that are numbered,.... And their number, according to Jarchi, was known by what was paid; for he says the sum was taken not by heads, but everyone gave the half shekel, and by counting them the number was known, as follows:half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; that is, after the standard of a shekel kept in the sanctuary as a rule for all; and so Jarchi paraphrases it,"according to the weight of a shekel, which I have fixed for thee to weigh, the shekel of the sanctuary.'
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Exodus 30:13
Exodus 30:13
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Exodus 30 — OverviewExodus 30 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleMoses is, in this chapter, further instructed, I. Concerning the altar
of incense, ver. 1-10. II. Concerning the ransom-money which the
Israelites were to pay, when they were numbered, ver. 11-16. III.…Exodus 30 — OverviewExodus 30 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeExodus 30:1, The altar of incense; Exodus 30:11, The ransom of souls; Exodus 30:17, The brazen laver; Exodus 30:22, The holy anointing oil; Exodus 30:34, The composition of the incense.Exodus 30 — OverviewExodus 30 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter treats of the altar of incense, its form and use, Ex 30:1 of the ransom of the Israelites, with the half shekel when numbered, Ex 30:11 of the laver for the priests to wash their hands and feet at before…Exodus 30:11-16Exodus 30:11-16 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleSome observe that the repetition of those words, The Lord spoke unto
Moses, here and afterwards (v. 17, 22, 34), intimates that God did not
deliver these precepts to Moses in the mount, in a continued discourse,…Exodus 30:13Exodus 30:13 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgea shekel is: Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; Ezekiel 45:12
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