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Exodus 30:14

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Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah.

KJV

Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

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This verse in Exodus 30

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above,.... Even Levites, Israelites, proselytes, and servants freed, but not women, bond servants, or children (x): shall give an offering to the Lord; the half shekel before mentioned. (x) Misn. Shekalim, c. 1. sect. 1, 3.

This site's exposition

Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over

on Exodus 30:14-16

Rich and poor alike give exactly “a half shekel,” so this offering alone has no scale, since a ransom is priced by what is redeemed. Exodus 38:27 follows the silver into a hundred bases, so the frames of the dwelling stand on atonement money.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And, (2.) It was to teach us, who are daily to attend upon God, daily to renew our repentance for sin and our believing application of the blood of Christ to our souls for remission; for in many things we daily offend and contract pollution, John xiii. This is the preparation we are to make for solemn ordinances.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

WILL you kindly open your Bibles to Exodus 30, for I must commence my discourse by expounding that passage. When the account was taken of the number of the children of Israel, the Lord commanded that every male over 20 years of age should pay half a shekel as Redemption money, confessing that he deserved to die, acknowledging that he was in debt to God and bringing the sum demanded as a type of a great Redemption which would, by-and-by, be paid for the souls of the sons of men. The truth was thus taught that God's people are a redeemed people—they are elsewhere called, "the redeemed of the Lord." If men reject the Redemption which He ordains, then they are not His people, for of all His chosen it may be said—"The Lord has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he." Whenever we attempt to number the people of God, it is absolutely necessary that we count only those who at least profess to have brought the Redemption price in their hands and so have taken part in the Atonement of Christ Jesus. David, when he numbered the people, did not gather from them the Redemption money and, therefore, a plague broke out among them. He had failed in obedience to the Lord's ordinance and counted his subjects, not as redeemed people, but merely as so many heads. Let us always beware of estimating the number of Christians by the number of the population of the countries called Christian, for the only true Christians in the world are those who are redeemed from iniquity by the blood of the Lamb and have personally accepted the ransom which the Lord has provided—personally brought their Redemption money in their hands by taking Christ to be theirs and presenting Him, by an act of faith, to the great Father.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Moses our Teacher instituted a silver coin in Israel, for he was a great king. 44 See Deuteronomy:5. See also Ramban above,:25. He called it “shekel” [literally: “weight”] because that whole coin was a perfect weight, it had nothing defective in it and the silver contained no dross.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Exodus 30:13:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כֹּ֗לevery

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֹבֵר֙<the> [one who] passes over

    haoverH5674 →556 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַפְּקֻדִ֔יםthose [who] are enrolled

    hapekudimH6485 →303 times

  • מִבֶּ֛ןfrom a son of

    mibenH1121 →4930 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • שָׁנָ֖הyear[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • וָמָ֑עְלָהand up -wards

    vamaelahH4605 →140 times

  • יִתֵּ֖ןhe will pay

    yitenH5414 →2011 times

  • תְּרוּמַ֥ת[the] contribution of

    terumatH8641 →76 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 1:3You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.5 worksNumbers 1:20From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,3 worksNumbers 14:29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.2 worksNumbers 26:2“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”2 worksNumbers 32:11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—2 worksNumbers 1:18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 32:11

    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac,…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:2

      “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 14:28–30

      So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

    • Numbers 14:24

      But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

  • Through

    Numbers 14:29

    Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:45

      So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.

    • Numbers 26:64

      Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

    • 1 Corinthians 10:5

      Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:2

    “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 38:25–26

      The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—

  • Through

    Numbers 1:20

    From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:5–7

      Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. These were the descendants of Reuben: The Hanochite clan from Hanoch, the Palluite clan from Pallu,

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 30 →

This page draws on Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon 1581: Silver Sockets, Redemption the Foundation; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1581: “Silver Sockets—Redemption the Foundation!” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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