“ We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

我们又为自己定例，每年各人捐银一舍客勒三分之一，为我们神殿的使用，

我们又为自己定例，每年各人捐献三分之一舍客勒，作为我们上帝殿之用：

我们又为自己定例，每年各人捐献三分之一舍客勒，作为我们神殿之用：

我们为自己定下律例，每人每年捐献四克银子，供我们上帝的殿使用，

我们又为自己立下法规，各人每年要缴纳四克银子作我们神的殿的经费，

我們又為自己定例，每年各人捐銀一舍客勒三分之一，為我們神殿的使用，

我們又為自己定例，每年各人捐獻三分之一舍客勒，作為我們上帝殿之用：

我們又為自己定例，每年各人捐獻三分之一舍客勒，作為我們神殿之用：

我們為自己定下律例，每人每年捐獻四克銀子，供我們上帝的殿使用，

我們又為自己立下法規，各人每年要繳納四克銀子作我們神的殿的經費，

我們又為自己立了法令、叫自己每年各獻銀一舍客勒三分之一，做我們的上帝之殿的用處：

我亦定例、每歲各輸金一舍客勒三分之一、供我上帝室中之役、

我亦定例、每歲人輸金一錢七分、供上帝殿中之需、

安息日、或聖日、異邦人若攜貨財食物售於我儕、我儕必不購之、每至七年、必休息、不耕不獲、不向負我債者索償、

“ We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God:

“ We will be accountable for carrying out the commands for serving in the house of our God. Each of us will give an eighth of an ounce of silver every year.

“ In addition, we promise to obey the command to pay the annual Temple tax of one eighth of an ounce of silver for the care of the Temple of our God.

We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:

We also imposed on ourselves the obligation to contribute yearly a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,

Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said,“ Does your teacher not pay the tax?”He said,“ Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying,“ What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?”And when he said,“ From others,” Jesus said to him,“ Then the sons are free.However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”

The Lord said to Moses,“ When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary( the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives.You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”