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Księga Wyjścia 38:26

Stanowiło to beka, czyli pół sykla, na osobę, według sykla świątynnego, na każdego podlegającego spisowi, od dwudziestego roku życia wzwyż, w sumie od sześciuset trzech tysięcy pięciuset pięćdziesięciu mężczyzn.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bekah;   Census;   Religion;   Tabernacle;   Talent;   Tax;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Talent;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Weights;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bekah;   Census;   Tabernacle;   Talent;   Weights;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Changers of Money;   Mishael;   Weights and Measures;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beka;   Half-Shekel Tax;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviticus;   Numbers, Book of;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Weights and Measures;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Silver;   Weights and Measures;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tables of measures weights and money in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Money;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beka;   Egypt;   Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin;   Moses;   Weights and Measures;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Exodus;   Heave-Offering;   Johanan B. Zakkai;   Numismatics;   Polemics and Polemical Literature;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Od każdej głowy pół sykla według sykla świątnicy, od wszystkich, którzy szli w liczbę, będąc we dwudziestu lat i dalej, których ludzi było sześć kroć sto tysięcy, i trzy tysiące, i pięćset, i pięćdziesiąt.
Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A składali od głowy każdy po pół sykla wagi kościelnej, wszyscy ci, którzy szli w liczbę będąc we dwudziestu lat i dalej, których ludzi było sześćset tysiąc i trzy tysiące pięćset i pięćdziesiąt.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Beka na głowę czyli pół szekla, według świętego szekla od każdego przychodzącego do spisujących, od lat dwudziestu i wyżej, czyli od sześć razy trzech tysięcy pięciuset pięćdziesięciu.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Od każdej głowy pół sykla według sykla świątnicy, od wszystkich, którzy szli w liczbę, będąc we dwudziestu lat i dalej, których ludzi było sześć kroć sto tysięcy, i trzy tysiące, i pięćset, i pięćdziesiąt.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Od każdej głowy pół sykla według sykla świątynnego, od wszystkich, którzy zostali policzeni, od dwudziestu lat i wyżej, a ludzi tych było sześćset trzy tysiące pięciuset pięćdziesięciu.
Biblia Warszawska
Beka na głowę, czyli pół sykla według wagi sykla świątynnego na każdego, kto podlegał spisowi, począwszy od dwudziestoletniego wzwyż, to jest od sześciuset trzech tysięcy pięciuset pięćdziesięciu mężczyzn.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bekah: Exodus 30:13, Exodus 30:15, Exodus 30:16

every man: Heb. a poll, Numbers 1:46

six hundred: Exodus 12:37, Numbers 1:46

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:12 - takest Numbers 1:2 - Take ye the sum Numbers 2:32 - General Numbers 11:21 - General Numbers 26:2 - General 2 Chronicles 25:6 - an hundred talents of silver Matthew 17:24 - tribute

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary,.... A half shekel was called a "bekah", from בקע, "bakah", to divide; because it was a shekel divided into two parts:

for everyone that went to be numbered, from twenty years and upwards; in order to give a ransom, and make an atonement for their souls, as was ordered Exodus 30:12

for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men]; so that from the time of their coming out of Egypt, which was now about six months ago, there was an increase of 3550 of the above age; see Exodus 12:37.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A bekah - Literally, “a half”: the words “half a shekel,” etc. appear to be inserted only for emphasis, to enforce the accuracy to be observed in the payment. See Exodus 30:13. Respecting the capitation and the numbering of the people, see Exodus 30:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 38:26. A bekah for every man — The Hebrew word בקי beka, from בקי baka, to divide, separate into two, seems to signify, not a particular coin, but a shekel broken or cut in two; so, anciently, our farthing was a penny divided in the midst and then subdivided, so that each division contained the fourth part of the penny; hence its name fourthing or fourthling, since corrupted into farthing.

THERE appear to be three particular reasons why much riches should be employed in the construction of the tabernacle, c.

1. To impress the people's minds with the glory and dignity of the Divine Majesty, and the importance of his service.

2. To take out of their hands the occasion of covetousness for as they brought much spoils out of Egypt, and could have little if any use for gold and silver in the wilderness, where it does not appear that they had much intercourse with any other people, and were miraculously supported, so that they did not need their riches, it was right to employ that in the worship of God which otherwise might have engendered that love which is the root of all evil.

3. To prevent pride and vainglory, by leading them to give up to the Divine service even the ornaments of their persons, which would have had too direct a tendency to divert their minds from better things. Thus God's worship was rendered august and respectable, incitements to sin and low desires removed, and the people instructed to consider nothing valuable, but as far as it might be employed to the glory and in the service of God.


 
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