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Re: Do we have to pay tithes?
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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister
Don't forget . . .
I disagree with EB on one thing. Money was readily available to everyone, even when they were in the desert.
The half shekel offering was taken in the wilderness after the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. More than six hundred thousand men above the age of twenty were required to pay the half shekel. It was money. Your very soul (life) depended on you paying the half shekel offering. Money seems to have been pretty widely available, if more than six hundred thousand men had it, out in the desert.
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Half shekel wasn't exactly a coin, it was weighted measure. To understand something so vastly ancient you need to look at the words they used. Genesis 23:16 was silver not minted coins, because what on earth did they need to mint coins. The word doesn't even mean a "coin" but weight.
Money comin to ya!
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