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Parashat Pekudei / פרשת פקודי
Torah Portion: Exodus 38:21 - 40:38
Full Kriyah
38:21 First Reading
These are the accounts of the Tabernacle (the Tabernacle of Testimony), which were calculated by Moses' order by the Levites under Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
Eleh fekudey haMishkan Mishkan ha'edut asher pukad al-pi Moshe avodat haLevi'im beyad Itamar ben-Aharon hakohen
39:2 Second Reading Fifth Reading
He made the ephod out of gold [thread], sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool, and twined linen.
Vaya'as et-ha'efod zahav techelet ve'argaman vetola'at shani veshesh moshezar.
39:3 They beat out thin sheets of gold, and cut them into threads, which were [then] included in the sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool, and the fine linen.
[The ephod was made] as a patterned brocade.
Vayerake'u et-pachey hazahav vekitsets petilim la'asot betoch hatchelet uvetoch ha'argaman uvetoch tola'at hashani uvetoch hashesh ma'aseh choshev.
39:4 They made shoulder pieces for it, sewn to its two corners.
Ktefot asu-lo choverot al-shney ketsotav chubar.
39:21 They laced the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a twist of sky-blue wool, so that the breastplate would remain above the ephod's belt. The breastplate would thus not be displaced from the ephod.
[All this was done] as God had commanded Moses.
Vayirkesu et-hachoshen mitabe'otav el-tabe'ot ha'efod biftil techelet lihyot al-cheshev ha'efod velo-yizach hachoshen me'al ha'efod ka'asher tsivah Adonay et-Moshe.
39:22 Third Reading Sixth Reading
He made the robe for the ephod, weaving it completely out of sky-blue wool.
Vaya'as et-me'il ha'efod ma'aseh oreg kelil techelet.
39:33 Fourth Reading
They brought the Tabernacle to Moses. [There was] the Communion Tent along with its equipment, its fastenings, beams, crossbars, pillars and bases;
Vayavi'u et-haMishkan el-Moshe et-ha'ohel ve'et-kol-kelav krasav kerashav brichav ve'amudav va'adanav.
39:34 the roof of reddened rams' hides, the roof of blue processed hides, the cloth partition;
Ve'et-michseh orot ha'eylim hame'odamim ve'et-michseh orot hatechashim ve'et parochet hamasach.
39:35 the Ark of Testimony and its carrying poles, the ark cover,
Et-Aron ha'Edut ve'et-badav ve'et hakaporet.
39:36 the table and its equipment, the showbread,
Et-hashulchan et-kol-kelav ve'et lechem hapanim.
40:1 Fifth Reading Seventh Reading
God spoke to Moses, saying:
Vayedaber Adonay el-Moshe lemor.
40:2 On the first day of the first month, you shall erect the Communion Tent Tabernacle.
Beyom-hachodesh harishon be'echad lachodesh takim et-Mishkan ohel-mo'ed.
40:3 Place the Ark of Testimony there, and shield the ark with the cloth partition.
Vesamta sham et Aron ha'Edut vesakota al-ha'aron et-haparochet.
40:4 Bring in the table and set it up, and bring in the menorah and light its lamps.
Veheveta et-hashulchan ve'arachta et-erko veheveta et-hamenorah veha'aleyta et-neroteyha.
40:16 Moses proceeded to do exactly as God had commanded him.
Vaya'as Moshe kechol asher tsivah Adonay oto ken asah.
40:17 Sixth Reading
In the first month of the second year [of the Exodus], on the first of the month, the Tabernacle was erected.
Vayehi bachodesh harishon bashanah hashenit be'echad lachodesh hukam haMishkan.
40:28 Seventh Reading
He placed the drape over the Tabernacle's entrance.
Vayasem et-masach hapetach laMishkan.
40:29 He [then] placed the sacrificial altar in front of the entrance of the Communion Tent Tabernacle, and he sacrificed the burnt offering and meal offering on it. [It was all done] as God had commanded Moses.
Ve'et mizbach ha'olah sam petach Mishkan ohel-mo'ed vaya'al alav et-ha'olah ve'et-haminchah ka'asher tsivah Adonay et-Moshe.
40:33 He set up the enclosure surrounding the tabernacle and altar, and he placed the drape over the enclosure's entrance. With this, Moses completed all the work.
Vayakem et-hechatser saviv laMishkan velamizbe'ach vayiten et-masach sha'ar hechatser vayechal Moshe et-hamelachah.
40:34 Last Reading
The cloud covered the Communion Tent, and God's glory filled the Tabernacle.
Vayechas he'anan et-Ohel Mo'ed uchevod Adonay male et-haMishkan.
On Shabbat Shekalim
maf: Exodus 30:11-16 (6 p'sukim)
30:11 First Reading
God spoke to Moses saying:
Vayedaber Adonay el-Moshe lemor.
30:12 When you take a census of the Israelites to determine their numbers, each one shall be counted by giving an atonement offering for his life. In this manner, they will not be stricken by the plague when they are counted.
Ki tisa et-rosh beney-Yisra'el lifkudeyhem venatnu ish kofer nafsho l'Adonay bifkod otam velo-yihyeh vahem negef bifkod otam.
Haftarah for Ashkenazim
Haftarah, P'kudei
Community Development
Haftarah for P'kudei
I Kings 7:51 - 8:21
Sepharadim read I Kings 7:40-50
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
51 When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of the Lord was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David — the silver, the gold, and the vessels — and deposited them in the treasury of the House of the Lord.
Chapter 8
1 Then Solomon convoked the elders of Israel — all the heads of the tribes and the ancestral chieftains of the Israelites — before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from the City of David, that is, Zion.
2 All the men of Israel gathered before King Solomon at the Feast, in the month of Ethanim — that is, the seventh month. 3 When all the elders of Israel had come, the priests lifted the Ark 4 and carried up the Ark of the Lord. Then the priests and the Levites brought the Tent of Meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. 5 Meanwhile, King Solomon and the whole community of Israel, who were assembled with him before the Ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen in such abundance that they could not be numbered or counted.
6 The priests brought the Ark of the Lord's Covenant to its place underneath the wings of the cherubim, in the Shrine of the House, in the Holy of Holies; 7 for the cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the Ark, so that the cherubim shielded the Ark and its poles from above. 8 The poles projected so that the ends of the poles were visible in the sanctuary in front of the Shrine, but they could not be seen outside; and there they remain to this day. 9 There was nothing inside the Ark but the two tablets of stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when the Lord made [a covenant] with the Israelites after their departure from the land of Egypt.
10 When the priests came out of the sanctuary — for the cloud had filled the House of the Lord 11 and the priests were not able to remain and perform the service because of the cloud, for the Presence of the Lord filled the House of the Lord — 12 then Solomon declared:
"The Lord has chosen
To abide in a thick cloud:
13 I have now built for You
A stately House, A place where You May dwell forever."
14 Then, with the whole congregation of Israel standing, the king faced about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel. 15 He said:
"Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with deeds the promise He made to my father David. For He said, 16 'Ever since I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city among all the tribes of Israel for building a House where My name might abide; but I have chosen David to rule My people Israel.'
17 "Now my father David had intended to build a House for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 18 But the Lord said to my father David, 'As regards your intention to build a House for My name, you did right to have that intention. 19 However, you shall not build the House yourself; instead, your son, the issue of your loins, shall build the House for My name.'
20 "And the Lord has fulfilled the promise that He made: I have succeeded my father David and have ascended the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built the House for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel; 21 and I have set a place there for the Ark, containing the covenant which the Lord made with our fathers when He brought them out from the land of Egypt."
Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
Used by permission of The Jewish Publication Society. Copyright ©1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society. No part of this text can be reproduced or forwarded without written permission.
Please visit the JPS website for more fine books of Jewish literature and tradition.
Haftarah for Sephardim: I Kings 7:40 - 7:50
When Parashat Pekudei coincides with a special Shabbat, we read a different Haftarah
■05 Mar 2011 (Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17)
Haftarah, Shabbat Shekalim
Community Development
Shabbat Shekalim
II Kings 11:17 - 12:17
Ashkenazim begin at 12:1
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
17 And Jehoiada solemnized the covenant between the Lord, on the one hand, and the king and the people, on the other — as well as between the king and the people — that they should be the people of the Lord. 18 Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal. They tore it down and smashed its altars and images to bits, and they slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. [Jehoiada] the priest then placed guards over the House of the Lord. 19 He took the chiefs of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they escorted the king from the House of the Lord into the royal palace by the gate of the guards. And he ascended the royal throne. 20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. As for Athalia, she had been put to the sword in the royal palace.
Ashkenazim begin here
Chapter 12
1 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. 2 Jehoash began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 3 All his days Jehoash did what was pleasing to the Lord, as the priest Jehoiada instructed him. 4 The shrines, however, were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and offer at the shrines.
5 Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money, current money, brought into the House of the Lord as sacred donations — any money a man may pay as the money equivalent of persons, or any other money that a man may be minded to bring to the House of the Lord — 6 let the priests receive it, each from his benefactor; they, in turn, shall make repairs on the House, wherever damage may be found."
7 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, [it was found that] the priests had not made the repairs on the House. 8 So King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada and the other priests and said to them, "Why have you not kept the House in repair? Now do not accept money from your benefactors any more, but have it donated for the repair of the House." 9 The priests agreed that they would neither accept money from the people nor make repairs on the House.
10 And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it at the right side of the altar as one entered the House of the Lord, and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of the Lord. 11 Whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would come up and put the money accumulated in the House of the Lord into bags, and they would count it. 12 Then they would deliver the money that was weighed out to the overseers of the work, who were in charge of the House of the Lord. These, in turn, used to pay the carpenters and the laborers who worked on the House of the Lord, 13 and the masons and the stonecutters. They also paid for wood and for quarried stone with which to make the repairs on the House of the Lord, and for every other expenditure that had to be made in repairing the House. 14 However, no silver bowls and no snuffers, basins, or trumpets — no vessels of gold or silver — were made at the House of the Lord from the money brought into the House of the Lord; 15 this was given only to the overseers of the work for the repair of the House of the Lord. 16 No check was kept on the men to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers; for they dealt honestly.
17 Money brought as a guilt offering or as a sin offering was not deposited in the House of the Lord; it went to the priests.
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In addition, there is a special Torah reading for Shabbat Shekalim, which is reprinted below.
Exodus 30:11-16
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the Lord a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. 13 This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight — twenty gerahs to the shekel — a half-shekel as an offering to the Lord. 14 Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the Lord's offering: 15 the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the Lord's offering as expiation for your persons. 16 You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the Lord, as expiation for your persons.
Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
Used by permission of The Jewish Publication Society. Copyright ©1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society. No part of this text can be reproduced or forwarded without written permission.
Please visit the JPS website for more fine books of Jewish literature and tradition.
Parashat Pekudei / פרשת פקודי
Torah Portion: Exodus 38:21 - 40:38
Full Kriyah
38:21 First Reading
These are the accounts of the Tabernacle (the Tabernacle of Testimony), which were calculated by Moses' order by the Levites under Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
Eleh fekudey haMishkan Mishkan ha'edut asher pukad al-pi Moshe avodat haLevi'im beyad Itamar ben-Aharon hakohen
39:2 Second Reading Fifth Reading
He made the ephod out of gold [thread], sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool, and twined linen.
Vaya'as et-ha'efod zahav techelet ve'argaman vetola'at shani veshesh moshezar.
39:3 They beat out thin sheets of gold, and cut them into threads, which were [then] included in the sky-blue, dark red and crimson wool, and the fine linen.
[The ephod was made] as a patterned brocade.
Vayerake'u et-pachey hazahav vekitsets petilim la'asot betoch hatchelet uvetoch ha'argaman uvetoch tola'at hashani uvetoch hashesh ma'aseh choshev.
39:4 They made shoulder pieces for it, sewn to its two corners.
Ktefot asu-lo choverot al-shney ketsotav chubar.
39:21 They laced the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a twist of sky-blue wool, so that the breastplate would remain above the ephod's belt. The breastplate would thus not be displaced from the ephod.
[All this was done] as God had commanded Moses.
Vayirkesu et-hachoshen mitabe'otav el-tabe'ot ha'efod biftil techelet lihyot al-cheshev ha'efod velo-yizach hachoshen me'al ha'efod ka'asher tsivah Adonay et-Moshe.
39:22 Third Reading Sixth Reading
He made the robe for the ephod, weaving it completely out of sky-blue wool.
Vaya'as et-me'il ha'efod ma'aseh oreg kelil techelet.
39:33 Fourth Reading
They brought the Tabernacle to Moses. [There was] the Communion Tent along with its equipment, its fastenings, beams, crossbars, pillars and bases;
Vayavi'u et-haMishkan el-Moshe et-ha'ohel ve'et-kol-kelav krasav kerashav brichav ve'amudav va'adanav.
39:34 the roof of reddened rams' hides, the roof of blue processed hides, the cloth partition;
Ve'et-michseh orot ha'eylim hame'odamim ve'et-michseh orot hatechashim ve'et parochet hamasach.
39:35 the Ark of Testimony and its carrying poles, the ark cover,
Et-Aron ha'Edut ve'et-badav ve'et hakaporet.
39:36 the table and its equipment, the showbread,
Et-hashulchan et-kol-kelav ve'et lechem hapanim.
40:1 Fifth Reading Seventh Reading
God spoke to Moses, saying:
Vayedaber Adonay el-Moshe lemor.
40:2 On the first day of the first month, you shall erect the Communion Tent Tabernacle.
Beyom-hachodesh harishon be'echad lachodesh takim et-Mishkan ohel-mo'ed.
40:3 Place the Ark of Testimony there, and shield the ark with the cloth partition.
Vesamta sham et Aron ha'Edut vesakota al-ha'aron et-haparochet.
40:4 Bring in the table and set it up, and bring in the menorah and light its lamps.
Veheveta et-hashulchan ve'arachta et-erko veheveta et-hamenorah veha'aleyta et-neroteyha.
40:16 Moses proceeded to do exactly as God had commanded him.
Vaya'as Moshe kechol asher tsivah Adonay oto ken asah.
40:17 Sixth Reading
In the first month of the second year [of the Exodus], on the first of the month, the Tabernacle was erected.
Vayehi bachodesh harishon bashanah hashenit be'echad lachodesh hukam haMishkan.
40:28 Seventh Reading
He placed the drape over the Tabernacle's entrance.
Vayasem et-masach hapetach laMishkan.
40:29 He [then] placed the sacrificial altar in front of the entrance of the Communion Tent Tabernacle, and he sacrificed the burnt offering and meal offering on it. [It was all done] as God had commanded Moses.
Ve'et mizbach ha'olah sam petach Mishkan ohel-mo'ed vaya'al alav et-ha'olah ve'et-haminchah ka'asher tsivah Adonay et-Moshe.
40:33 He set up the enclosure surrounding the tabernacle and altar, and he placed the drape over the enclosure's entrance. With this, Moses completed all the work.
Vayakem et-hechatser saviv laMishkan velamizbe'ach vayiten et-masach sha'ar hechatser vayechal Moshe et-hamelachah.
40:34 Last Reading
The cloud covered the Communion Tent, and God's glory filled the Tabernacle.
Vayechas he'anan et-Ohel Mo'ed uchevod Adonay male et-haMishkan.
On Shabbat Shekalim
maf: Exodus 30:11-16 (6 p'sukim)
30:11 First Reading
God spoke to Moses saying:
Vayedaber Adonay el-Moshe lemor.
30:12 When you take a census of the Israelites to determine their numbers, each one shall be counted by giving an atonement offering for his life. In this manner, they will not be stricken by the plague when they are counted.
Ki tisa et-rosh beney-Yisra'el lifkudeyhem venatnu ish kofer nafsho l'Adonay bifkod otam velo-yihyeh vahem negef bifkod otam.
Haftarah for Ashkenazim
Haftarah, P'kudei
Community Development
Haftarah for P'kudei
I Kings 7:51 - 8:21
Sepharadim read I Kings 7:40-50
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
51 When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of the Lord was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David — the silver, the gold, and the vessels — and deposited them in the treasury of the House of the Lord.
Chapter 8
1 Then Solomon convoked the elders of Israel — all the heads of the tribes and the ancestral chieftains of the Israelites — before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from the City of David, that is, Zion.
2 All the men of Israel gathered before King Solomon at the Feast, in the month of Ethanim — that is, the seventh month. 3 When all the elders of Israel had come, the priests lifted the Ark 4 and carried up the Ark of the Lord. Then the priests and the Levites brought the Tent of Meeting and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. 5 Meanwhile, King Solomon and the whole community of Israel, who were assembled with him before the Ark, were sacrificing sheep and oxen in such abundance that they could not be numbered or counted.
6 The priests brought the Ark of the Lord's Covenant to its place underneath the wings of the cherubim, in the Shrine of the House, in the Holy of Holies; 7 for the cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the Ark, so that the cherubim shielded the Ark and its poles from above. 8 The poles projected so that the ends of the poles were visible in the sanctuary in front of the Shrine, but they could not be seen outside; and there they remain to this day. 9 There was nothing inside the Ark but the two tablets of stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when the Lord made [a covenant] with the Israelites after their departure from the land of Egypt.
10 When the priests came out of the sanctuary — for the cloud had filled the House of the Lord 11 and the priests were not able to remain and perform the service because of the cloud, for the Presence of the Lord filled the House of the Lord — 12 then Solomon declared:
"The Lord has chosen
To abide in a thick cloud:
13 I have now built for You
A stately House, A place where You May dwell forever."
14 Then, with the whole congregation of Israel standing, the king faced about and blessed the whole congregation of Israel. 15 He said:
"Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with deeds the promise He made to my father David. For He said, 16 'Ever since I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city among all the tribes of Israel for building a House where My name might abide; but I have chosen David to rule My people Israel.'
17 "Now my father David had intended to build a House for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 18 But the Lord said to my father David, 'As regards your intention to build a House for My name, you did right to have that intention. 19 However, you shall not build the House yourself; instead, your son, the issue of your loins, shall build the House for My name.'
20 "And the Lord has fulfilled the promise that He made: I have succeeded my father David and have ascended the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built the House for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel; 21 and I have set a place there for the Ark, containing the covenant which the Lord made with our fathers when He brought them out from the land of Egypt."
Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
Used by permission of The Jewish Publication Society. Copyright ©1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society. No part of this text can be reproduced or forwarded without written permission.
Please visit the JPS website for more fine books of Jewish literature and tradition.
Haftarah for Sephardim: I Kings 7:40 - 7:50
When Parashat Pekudei coincides with a special Shabbat, we read a different Haftarah
■05 Mar 2011 (Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17)
Haftarah, Shabbat Shekalim
Community Development
Shabbat Shekalim
II Kings 11:17 - 12:17
Ashkenazim begin at 12:1
This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh
17 And Jehoiada solemnized the covenant between the Lord, on the one hand, and the king and the people, on the other — as well as between the king and the people — that they should be the people of the Lord. 18 Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal. They tore it down and smashed its altars and images to bits, and they slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. [Jehoiada] the priest then placed guards over the House of the Lord. 19 He took the chiefs of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they escorted the king from the House of the Lord into the royal palace by the gate of the guards. And he ascended the royal throne. 20 All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. As for Athalia, she had been put to the sword in the royal palace.
Ashkenazim begin here
Chapter 12
1 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. 2 Jehoash began his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 3 All his days Jehoash did what was pleasing to the Lord, as the priest Jehoiada instructed him. 4 The shrines, however, were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and offer at the shrines.
5 Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money, current money, brought into the House of the Lord as sacred donations — any money a man may pay as the money equivalent of persons, or any other money that a man may be minded to bring to the House of the Lord — 6 let the priests receive it, each from his benefactor; they, in turn, shall make repairs on the House, wherever damage may be found."
7 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, [it was found that] the priests had not made the repairs on the House. 8 So King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada and the other priests and said to them, "Why have you not kept the House in repair? Now do not accept money from your benefactors any more, but have it donated for the repair of the House." 9 The priests agreed that they would neither accept money from the people nor make repairs on the House.
10 And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it at the right side of the altar as one entered the House of the Lord, and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of the Lord. 11 Whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would come up and put the money accumulated in the House of the Lord into bags, and they would count it. 12 Then they would deliver the money that was weighed out to the overseers of the work, who were in charge of the House of the Lord. These, in turn, used to pay the carpenters and the laborers who worked on the House of the Lord, 13 and the masons and the stonecutters. They also paid for wood and for quarried stone with which to make the repairs on the House of the Lord, and for every other expenditure that had to be made in repairing the House. 14 However, no silver bowls and no snuffers, basins, or trumpets — no vessels of gold or silver — were made at the House of the Lord from the money brought into the House of the Lord; 15 this was given only to the overseers of the work for the repair of the House of the Lord. 16 No check was kept on the men to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers; for they dealt honestly.
17 Money brought as a guilt offering or as a sin offering was not deposited in the House of the Lord; it went to the priests.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In addition, there is a special Torah reading for Shabbat Shekalim, which is reprinted below.
Exodus 30:11-16
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the Lord a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. 13 This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight — twenty gerahs to the shekel — a half-shekel as an offering to the Lord. 14 Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the Lord's offering: 15 the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the Lord's offering as expiation for your persons. 16 You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the Lord, as expiation for your persons.
Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
Used by permission of The Jewish Publication Society. Copyright ©1962, 1992
Third Edition by the Jewish Publication Society. No part of this text can be reproduced or forwarded without written permission.
Please visit the JPS website for more fine books of Jewish literature and tradition.
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