The Ransom of Souls. - [Exodus 38:25–28]. On comparing these words with those of [Numbers 1:1–3]…

From twenty years old and above. — A Hebrew was not reckoned full grown till twenty. At twenty the liability to military …

Every one that pa es among them that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above
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The tribute was half a shekel, equivalent to about fifteen pence. The rich were not to give more, nor the poor less; the souls of the rich and poor…