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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4715497, member: 19463"]Check your facts. The Temple tax was a half shekel and paid to the priests at the temple in Jerusalem, not to the Romans. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_tax" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_tax" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_tax</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The tax is set down in Exodus 30:13 a few thousand years before there were Romans. There were taxes to the Romans but the one called Temple Tax was to support the operation of the Temple. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a Bible story where Jesus tells Peter to catch a fish and, in it, find a whole shekel which would pay the tax for them both. There is some discussion as to what tax was meant in the passage but the amount mentioned matched the Temple Tax of Exodus. I have never understood why there are so many more whole shekels today than halves. Of course most were used in places other than Judaea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4715497, member: 19463"]Check your facts. The Temple tax was a half shekel and paid to the priests at the temple in Jerusalem, not to the Romans. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_tax[/URL] The tax is set down in Exodus 30:13 a few thousand years before there were Romans. There were taxes to the Romans but the one called Temple Tax was to support the operation of the Temple. There is a Bible story where Jesus tells Peter to catch a fish and, in it, find a whole shekel which would pay the tax for them both. There is some discussion as to what tax was meant in the passage but the amount mentioned matched the Temple Tax of Exodus. I have never understood why there are so many more whole shekels today than halves. Of course most were used in places other than Judaea.[/QUOTE]
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