Exodus 30:15
The rich are not to pay more and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 22:2 : 2 The rich and the poor are met together; the LORD is the Creator of them both.
- Eph 6:9 : 9 Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
- Col 3:25 : 25 For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there are no exceptions.
- Exod 30:12 : 12 “When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.
- Lev 17:11 : 11 for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.
- Num 31:50 : 50 So we have brought as an offering for the LORD what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- 2 Sam 21:3 : 3 David said to the Gibeonites,“What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless the LORD’s inheritance?”
- Job 34:19 : 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
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- Exod 30:12-143 verses84%
12“When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.
13Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the LORD.
14Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the LORD.
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16You are to receive the atonement money from the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.”
- Num 31:28-303 verses76%
28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.
29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.
30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”
- Num 3:47-482 verses73%
47collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel(this shekel is twenty gerahs).
48And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”
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17Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.
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26one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.
- Ezek 45:12-132 verses72%
12The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
13“‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,
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5‘Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,
- Deut 15:10-112 verses72%
10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.
- Lev 27:7-82 verses71%
7If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; according to what the man who made the vow can afford, the priest will establish his conversion value.
- Exod 25:2-32 verses71%
2“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.
3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,
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15Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.
- Num 18:26-305 verses71%
26“You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them,‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the LORD a tenth of the tithe.
27And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.
28Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the LORD of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the LORD’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.
29From all your gifts you must offer up every raised offering due the LORD, from all the best of it, and the holiest part of it.’
30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.
- Lev 27:2-32 verses71%
2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the LORD,
3the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
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25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
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25Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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21The Eighth Day Atonement Rituals for the Poor Person“If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,
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50So we have brought as an offering for the LORD what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
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50From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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12You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.
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10Then you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks before the LORD your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.
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16And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel(which is twenty gerahs).
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35You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
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47From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
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6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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52All the gold of the offering they offered up to the LORD from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.
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4For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”
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14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.
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37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
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10and you must present as the drink offering half a hin of wine with the fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Num 31:41-422 verses69%
41So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,
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15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
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4then the one who presents his offering to the LORD must bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil.
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7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
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16And whatever holy thing he violated he must restore and must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the guilt offering ram and he will be forgiven.”