16 Receive the atonement(A) money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting.(B) It will be a memorial(C) for the Israelites before the Lord, making atonement for your lives.”

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16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.

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16 And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and (A)shall [a]appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be (B)a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 30:16 give

32 “We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel[a] each year for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the bread set out on the table;(A) for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon(B) feasts and at the appointed festivals; for the holy offerings; for sin offerings[b] to make atonement for Israel; and for all the duties of the house of our God.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 10:32 That is, about 1/8 ounce or about 4 grams
  2. Nehemiah 10:33 Or purification offerings

32 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;

33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

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32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly (A)one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for (B)the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the (C)regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

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The Temple Tax

24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax(A) came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

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24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?

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Peter and His Master Pay Their Taxes

24 (A)When they had come to [a]Capernaum, those who received the [b]temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 17:24 NU Capharnaum, here and elsewhere
  2. Matthew 17:24 Lit. double drachma