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

Thou shalt ... appoint it for the service of the tabernacle. —It appears, by Exodus 38:27-28, that the silver collected b…

And you shall take the atonement money of the children of
Israel
The half shekel, the…

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…