Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
All your valuations shall be according to the shekelof the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Jehovah commanded Moses to take a census of the children of Israel, and in doing it to collect half a shekel of the sanctuary as atonement-money.
This expression "shekel of the sanctuary" is put into the mouth of Jehovah six or seven months before the tabernacle was made.
This half-shekel gradually became an annual impost, levied for the great expenses of the Temple.
It is an interesting circumstance that the "shekel of the sanctuary "spoken of in the Priestly Code is still the ordinary shekel in Ezekiel; compare Exodus xxx.
Hence the necessity for the general temple-tax, the prototype of which is found in the poll-tax of half a shekel for the service of the tabernacle in Exodus xxx.
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.
Nor indeed could David's or the neglect of executing this law at this numeration of half a shekel apiece with them, when they came numbered.
This stater or half-shekel was the payment for the Temple service, and we know that this was levied in March.
The payment according to the received view was the half-shekel that every Israelite had to pay for providing victims for the Temple service.
In The Bible in Spain Borrow relates that he showed this shekel at Gibraltar to a Jew, who exclaimed, 'Brothers, witness, these are the letters of Solomon.
There were several reasons why God asked particularly for the value of half a shekel as a penalty.
The half shekel was also to be an atonement for the sin committed by the ten sons of Jacob, who sold their brother Joseph as a slave, for whom each had received half a shekel as his share.
God quieted him with the words, "I do not ask what is due Me, but only what they can fulfil, half a shekel will suffice.
Let him give on till he can give no more, The thrifty Sanhedrim shall keep him poor; 390 And every shekel which he can receive, Shall cost a limb of his prerogative.
The highest sum which is named--fifty shekels--as the rate for a man from twenty to sixty years of age, taking the shekel as 2s.
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
One girl would be valued at a silver shekel by weight, while another was worth a mina, another much less;* the handing over of the price was accompanied with a certain solemnity.
Rent was high for those who had not a house of their own; the least they could expect to pay was half a silver shekel per annum, but the average price was a whole shekel.
In the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, we are told that the people, when numbered, must give each one a half shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary.
At that time no such money existed, and consequently the account could not, by any possibility, have been written until after there was a shekel of the sanctuary, and there was no such thing until long after the death of Moses.
The proportion of silver to gold was fixed as thirteen or thirteen and a third to one; and if the weight of a silver shekel was made as thirteen to ten, such a coin would correspond very nearly to our florin.
Half a silver shekel was a drachma, and this was therefore the true ancestor of our shilling.
In the course of the exodus, the Lord required of every male in Israel who was twenty years old or older at the time of a census the payment of a ransom, amounting to half a shekel (Exo.
This was to be paid "after the shekelof the sanctuary," which limitation, as rabbis had ruled, meant payment in temple coin.
Set not thy hand to help or hold them up higher; this cannot be done without wickedness neither, for this is a making of the shekel great (Amos 8:5).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shekel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
