³² And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹² When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

¹³ And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

¹⁴ Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

¹⁵ The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

¹⁶ And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

²² And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

²⁴ And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

²⁵ He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?

²⁶ And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.

²⁷ But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.