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“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them.
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Verse 12. Sum. David perhaps neglected this injunction. 2 Kennicott. 24. Josep. Ant. vii. 10. Yet we do not read that Moses took the half sicle when he numbered the people. Numbers 1. Whence others gather, that this sum was to be paid every year, as it was done in our Saviour’s time, for the support of the temple. Matthew 17:23. Vespasian ordered the Jews to pay the same money for the capitol. Josep. Bel. vii. 13.) After the captivity, the third part of a sicle was demanded. 2 Ezra 10:32. Calmet.
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