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And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold: and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee; is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Thou'lt be rewarded for taking my shekel, Jesus answered. A fine lamb for a month, the villager remarked.
And when he had gathered the multitude together again, he ordained that they should offer half a shekel for every man, as an oblation to God; which shekel is a piece among the Hebrews, and is equal to four Athenian drachmae. Whereupon they readily obeyed what Moses had commanded; and the number of the offerers was six hundred and five thousand five hundred and fifty.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
I sell them; or at least my uncles do." "The money is given to the poor," interposed Ithiel. "Would it be rude to ask at what price?" "A shekel! Four shekels!" said Marcus in a voice of despair; "I will buy them all no, I will not, it would be robbery. And this bust?" "That, sir, is not for sale; it is a gift to my uncle, or rather to my uncles, to be set up in their court-room."
"Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, and of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil."
"But you are a Jew," said the Rabbi, earnestly. "You are a Jew, and of the line of David. It is not possible you can find pleasure in the payment of any tax except the shekel given by ancient custom to Jehovah." Joseph held his peace. "I do not complain," his friend continued, "of the amount of the tax a denarius is a trifle. Oh no! The imposition of the tax is the offense.
The greater portion was made into bases for the boards of the sanctuary. That is, God's dwelling with men and our communion with Him all rest on the basis of ransom. We are 'brought nigh by the blood of Christ. 'The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel.... EXODUS xxx. 15. This tax was exacted on numbering the people.
Lightfoot states that there were thirteen treasure-chests, called Shopheroth, and collectively Corban or Corbonah, which were placed in that part of the temple denominated the Court of the Women. Two of these chests were for the half shekel, which every Israelite was to pay according to the law; and eleven others were appropriated to the uses specified in their respective inscriptions. 1.
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
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