Tammuz 8 – Everyone numbered shall give a half shekel

July 3, 2025

04 – Tammuz, Exodus, Israel, Moses

Tabernacle

Tammuz 8, 5785; from sunset July 3, 2025, to sunset July 4, 2025

(The eighth day of the fourth month)

This is the name “Mosheh” (מֺשֶׁה – Moses) as seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls, written over two thousand years ago.

Today in the Bible, we’re in the midst of Moses’ first forty days upon the mountain. After giving the Torah to Israel, the LORD called Moses up on the mountain to show him how to make the furnishings for the tabernacle. Today we’ll focus on the LORD’s instructions for the half shekel.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: “When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them. This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD.

the rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less

“Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD. The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.

“And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.” – Exodus 30:11-16

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