“All your valuations are to be according to the sanctuary shekel [two-fifths of an ounce], twenty gerahs to the shekel.”-Leviticus 27:25 Verse 25 is an interesting footnote that just kind of sticks out like a sore thumb when reading through Leviticus chapter 27. We’re told that the standard for paying the redemption money will be the Sanctuary Shekel. There […]

“If the animal is an unclean one, such as may not be used in an offering to Adonai, he must set it before the cohen; and the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by you the cohen will stand. But if the person making the vow wishes to redeem the […]

“If the vow is for the value of an animal of the kind used when people bring an offering to Adonai, all that a person gives of such animals to Adonai will be holy. He is not to exchange or replace it by substituting a good animal for a bad one or vice versa; if he does make such […]

“Adonai said to Moshe, “Tell the people of Israel, ‘If someone makes a clearly defined vow to Adonai to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being, the value you are to assign to a man between the ages of twenty and sixty years is to be fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds], with the sanctuary shekel being the […]

I ended my last post by stating that “tithing” was only one of several categories of offerings given to the sanctuary. Let’s talk about this tithing issue a little bit. The first thing you need to know is that there is ZERO command anywhere in the New Testament to tithe anything. Sure, the issue of […]