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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Exodus 30:11

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Religion;   Tabernacle;   Tax;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Atonement;   Money;   Redeem, Redemption;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Taxes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Tribute;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eschatology (2);   Tribute (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement;   Census;   Silver;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tax taxing taxation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gad (2);   Jehoash;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Money-Changers;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Judaism;   Opferpfennig, Goldener;   Parashiyyot, the Four;   Saadia B. Joseph (Sa'id Al-Fayyumi);   Sidra;   Taḳḳanah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
New American Standard Bible
The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Afterward the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh also spoke to Moses, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to Moses:
Complete Jewish Bible
Aharon is to make atonement on its horns once a year — with the blood of the sin offering of atonement he is to make atonement for it once a year through all your generations; it is especially holy to Adonai ." Haftarah Tetzaveh: Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 43:10–27 B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Tetzaveh: Philippians 4:10–20 Adonai said to Moshe,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses,
English Standard Version
The Lord said to Moses,
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "When you take a head count of the Israelites to keep track of them, all must pay an atonement-tax to God for their life at the time of being registered so that nothing bad will happen because of the registration. Everyone who gets counted is to give a half-shekel (using the standard Sanctuary shekel of a fifth of an ounce to the shekel)—a half-shekel offering to God . Everyone counted, age twenty and up, is to make the offering to God. The rich are not to pay more nor the poor less than the half-shekel offering to God , the atonement-tax for your lives. Take the atonement-tax money from the Israelites and put it to the maintenance of the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial fund for the Israelites in honor of God , making atonement for your lives."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

11 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 12 When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel, after their number, then shall they giue euery man a ransome for his soule vnto the Lord, when thou numbrest them, that there be no plague amongst them, when thou numbrest them. 13 This they shall giue, euery one that passeth among them that are numbred: halfe a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary: A shekel is twenty gerahs: an halfe shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. 14 Euery one that passeth among them that are numbred from twentie yeeres old and aboue, shall giue an offering vnto the Lord. 15 The rich shal not giue more, and the poore shall not giue lesse then halfe a shekel, when they giue an offering vnto the Lord, to make an atonement for your soules. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that it may be a memoriall vnto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your soules.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 10:32 - the third part

Cross-References

Genesis 30:20
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry: Now will my husband dwel with me, because I haue borne him sixe sonnes: and shee called his name Zebulun.
Genesis 30:21
And afterwardes shee bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis 35:26
And the sonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Asher. These are the sonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram.
Genesis 46:16
And the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 49:19
Gad, a troupe shall ouercome him: but he shall ouercome at the last.
Isaiah 65:11
But yee are they that for sake the Lord, that forget my holy mountaine, that prepare a table for that troope, and that furnish the drinke offring vnto that number.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Continued his discourse; or, there being some intermission, reassumed it:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Ransom of Souls. - Exodus 38:25-28. On comparing these words with those of Numbers 1:1-3, we may perhaps infer that the first passage relates to a mere counting of the adult Israelites at the time when the money was taken from each, and that what the latter passage enjoins was a formal enrolment of them according to their genealogies and their order of military service.

A ransom for his soul - What the sincere worshipper thus paid was at once the fruit and the sign of his faith in the goodness of Yahweh, who had redeemed him and brought him into the covenant. Hence, the payment is rightly called a ransom inasmuch as it involved a personal appropriation of the fact of his redemption. On the word soul, see Leviticus 17:11.

That there be no plague - i. e. that they might not incur punishment for the neglect and contempt of spiritual privileges. Compare Exodus 28:35; 1 Corinthians 11:27-30; and the exhortation in our communion Service.

Exodus 30:13

Half a shekel - The probable weight of silver in the half-shekel would now be worth about 1 shilling, 3 1/2d. (Compare Genesis 23:16. See Exodus 38:24 note.) Gerah is, literally, a bean, probably the bean of the carob or locust-tree. It was used as the name of a small weight, as our word grain came into use from a grain of wheat.

Exodus 30:15

Every Israelite stood in one and the same relation to Yahweh. See Exodus 30:11-12.

Exodus 30:16

tabernacle of the congregation - tent of meeting, here and in Exodus 30:18, Exodus 30:20,

A memorial unto the children of Israel - The silver used in the tabernacle was a memorial to remind each man of his position before the Lord, as one of the covenanted people.


 
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