…markup for the priests, but the merchants were also extorting extra money for themselves. Additionally, all Jewish males over 20 were required byExodus 30, verse 12 through 16, to pay a half-shekel temple tax. But both the animals and the temple tax had to be paid for in Jewish coinage, and people were coming from all…
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