To charge ourselves Every particular person among us; yearly with a third part of a shekel About ten-pence of our money; for the service of the house of our God To provide the show-bread for the table, two lambs for the daily offerings, four for the sabbaths, and more costly sacrifices for other festivals, occasional sin-offerings, and meat offerings, and drink-offerings for them all, the charge of which was great and constant. Formerly these things had been provided from the treasures of the temple, (1 Chronicles 26:20,) and when these failed, from the king's treasures: but now, both these failing, provision is here properly made for them another way.
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Nehemiah 10:32
32 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;