This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms
PoetryThat in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
Esther
History / MordecaiWill he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
Mark
GospelsBecause God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Judges
HistoryFor there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms
PoetryNo man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetrySo Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis
Law / MosesYet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus
LawAnd those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kings
HistoryHe shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
Leviticus
LawThis is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Numbers
Law / MosesDavid therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts
History / LukeAnd he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.