iSee ch. 38:25-31
Exodus 30:11-16
The Census Tax
11The Lord said to Moses, 12 a“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give ba ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
according to the dshekel of the sanctuary (the eshekel is twenty gerahs), ▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
ghalf a shekel as an offering to the Lord. 14Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than hthe half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives. 16You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall igive it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to jremembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.” Matthew 17:24-27
The Temple Tax
24 kWhen they came to Capernaum, the collectors of lthe two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” 25He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, m“What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or ntax? From their sons or from others?” 26And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. ▼▼Greek stater, a silver coin worth four drachmas or approximately one shekel
Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.” 2 Corinthians 8:12
12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable paccording to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
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