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Selected Verse: Exodus 30:13 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 30:13 |
Strong Concordance |
This they shall give [05414], every one that passeth [05674] among [05921] them that are numbered [06485], half [04276] a shekel [08255] after the shekel [08255] of the sanctuary [06944]: (a shekel [08255] is twenty [06242] gerahs [01626]:) an half [04276] shekel [08255] shall be the offering [08641] of the LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
This 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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| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
This they shall give
Compare (Exo 38:25-27).
Silver thus becomes a type of redemption.
(See Scofield) - (Exo 26:19). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Half a shekel - Each of the Israelites was ordered to give as a ransom for his soul (i.e., for his life) half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. From this we may learn,
1. That the life of every man was considered as being forfeited to Divine justice.
2. That the redemption money given, which was doubtless used in the service of the sanctuary, was ultimately devoted to the use and profit of those who gave it.
3. That the standard by which the value of coin was ascertained, was kept in the sanctuary; for this appears to be the meaning of the words, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4. The shekel is here said to be twenty gerahs. A gerah, according to Maimonides, weighed sixteen barleycorns, a shekel three hundred and twenty of pure silver. The shekel is generally considered to be equal in value to three shillings English; the redemption money, therefore, must be about one shilling and sixpence.
5. The rich were not to give more, the poor not to give less; to signify that all souls were equally precious in the sight of God, and that no difference of outward circumstances could affect the state of the soul; all had sinned, and all must be redeemed by the same price.
6. This atonement must be made that there might be no plague among them, intimating that a plague or curse from God must light on those souls for whom the atonement was not made.
7. This was to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, Exo 30:16, to bring to their remembrance their past deliverance, and to keep in view their future redemption.
8. St. Peter seems to allude to this, and to intimate that this mode of atonement was ineffectual in itself, and only pointed out the great sacrifice which, in the fullness of time, should be made for the sin of the world. "Ye know," says he, "that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world," etc.; Pe1 1:18, Pe1 1:19, Pe1 1:20.
9. Therefore all these things seem to refer to Christ alone, and to the atonement made by his blood; and upon him who is not interested in this atonement, God's plagues must be expected to fall.
Reader, acquaint now thyself with God and be at peace, and thereby good shall come unto thee. |
19 And thou shalt make [06213] forty [0705] sockets [0134] of silver [03701] under the twenty [06242] boards [07175]; two [08147] sockets [0134] under one [0259] board [07175] for his two [08147] tenons [03027], and two [08147] sockets [0134] under another [0259] board [07175] for his two [08147] tenons [03027].
25 And the silver [03701] of them that were numbered [06485] of the congregation [05712] was an hundred [03967] talents [03603], and a thousand [0505] seven [07651] hundred [03967] and threescore and fifteen [07657] [02568] shekels [08255], after the shekel [08255] of the sanctuary [06944]:
26 A bekah [01235] for every man [01538], that is, half [04276] a shekel [08255], after the shekel [08255] of the sanctuary [06944], for every one that went [05674] to be numbered [06485], from twenty [06242] years [08141] old [01121] and upward [04605], for six [08337] hundred [03967] thousand [0505] and three [07969] thousand [0505] and five [02568] hundred [03967] and fifty [02572] men.
27 And of the hundred [03967] talents [03603] of silver [03701] were cast [03332] the sockets [0134] of the sanctuary [06944], and the sockets [0134] of the vail [06532]; an hundred [03967] sockets [0134] of the hundred [03967] talents [03603], a talent [03603] for a socket [0134].
20 Who verily [3303] was foreordained [4267] before [4253] the foundation [2602] of the world [2889], but [1161] was manifest [5319] in [1909] these last [2078] times [5550] for [1223] you [5209],
19 But [235] with the precious [5093] blood [129] of Christ [5547], as [5613] of a lamb [286] without blemish [299] and [2532] without spot [784]:
18 Forasmuch as ye know [1492] that [3754] ye were [3084] not [3756] redeemed [3084] with corruptible things [5349], as silver [694] and [2228] gold [5553], from [1537] your [5216] vain [3152] conversation [391] received by tradition from your fathers [3970];
16 And thou shalt take [03947] the atonement [03725] money [03701] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and shalt appoint [05414] it for the service [05656] of the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150]; that it may be a memorial [02146] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478] before [06440] the LORD [03068], to make an atonement [03722] for your souls [05315].