The first blush reading of scriptures seem to show a contradiction in the entry level ages for the Levite priests. This is because carnal mind doesn't understand the context of the various census spoken of in scriptures. There is also a misunderstanding on the half a sheqel atonement price which had to be paid which is also called the Temple tax. If we understand the various census taken with evidence, we will be able to identify as to when this atonement price had to be collected. We will see this with the example of David's sin. We will also see the norm for an entry age vs a census age for a Levite. This note shows a distinction of the census taken to clear the understanding and to show there is no contradiction in Yahuah's dabar.
25 years or 30 years or 20 years entry age for Levites:
To understand the entry level ages mentioned we must understand the various census taken in its correct perspective.
There is a difference between the census of Numbers 1,3 & 4.
1. Numbers 1 census: 20 years and above, all that are able to go out to war in Yasharal. The Levites were not accounted in this census.
In Numbers 1, the census was for all who are able to go out to war in Yasharal, this didn't require half a sheqel ransom money because its associated with the Levites vs every firstborn in Yasharal which we will see in point number 2.
Num 1:2 Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Yisra’El, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male by their heads.
Num1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all are able to go out to war in Yisra’El, you and Aharon shall number them by their armies.
As stated, in this census the Levites were not numbered.
Num 1:47 But the Lĕwites were not counted among them by their fathers’ tribe,
Num 1:48 because יהוה had spoken to Mosheh, saying,
Num 1:49 “Only the tribe of Lĕwi you do not count, nor take a census of them among the children of Yisra’ĕl.
2. The atonement for firstborn census: every male of a Levite from a month old and upward you shall number vs every firstborn of Yasharal.
The Torah came with instructions that when a census is to be conducted for every male that crosses over (abar), it had to be done along with a ransom of half a shekel of the sanctuary for those who are 20 years old and above so that there is no plague among the tribes.
Ex 30:11 ¶ And the YAHUAH spake unto Moses, saying,
Ex 30:12 When thou takest the sum/rosh ראש H7218 of the children of Yasharal after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the YAHUAH, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
Ex 30:13 This they shall give, everyone that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs) a half shekel shall be the offering of the YAHUAH.
Ex 30:14 Everyone passing over/abar עבר to be counted, from twenty years old and over,
shall give a heave offering/tarumah to Yahuah.
In 2 Sam 24:1-25 we read David numbering Yasharal, the census command was to count those ready for war in all tribes under each commander as well as count everyone from each tribe 20 years and above.
1Chr 21:5 And Yoab gave the number of the census of the people to Dawid.
And all Yisra’El were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men who drew
the sword; and Yahudah was four hundred seventy thousand men who drew the sword.
1Chr 21:6 But he did not number Lewi and Benyamin in midst of them,
for the king’s word was abominable to Yoab.
1 Chr 27 lists down the number from each tribe numbered who were ready for war.
It also lists the head of each tribe who helped Yoab to number the rest of the firstborn men in each tribe and the heads who helped from Levi was ChashabYah and Tsadoq for Aharon.
1Chr27:17 Of Lewi, ChashabYah the son of Qemu’El; for Aharon, Tsadoq;
But didn't we read Yoab didn't number Levi and Benyamin among them? Firstly, we must understand that there are 2 censuses clubbed together here. 1} men of war 2} every firstborn male from each tribe.
Hence, Yoab didn't number Levi and Binyamin in men of war for it was abominable to him as he knew the Torah of Masha partly i.e. when compared to Numbers 1 census Binyamin could be numbered but no Levi, as Levites were not supposed to go out to war.
Num 1:36 From the children of Binyamin, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,
In the second census he numbered them, every male from each tribe and that is how 1 Chr 27:17 & 21 records of the heads who helped him in the census.
v 17 of Lewi, ChashabYah the son of Qemu’El; for Aharon, Tsadoq
v 21 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Yiddo the son of ZekarYahu;
of Benyamin, Yaasi’El the son of Abner;
In 1Ch 27:23 we read But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because YAHUAH had said he would increase Yasharal like to the stars of the heavens.
Didn't we read Yoab gave the count of the census to David in 1Chr 21:5
1Chr 21:5 And Yoab gave the number of the census of the people to Dawid. And all Yisra’El were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men who drew the sword; and Yahudah was four hundred seventy thousand men who drew the sword.
v 24 of 1 Chr 27 records Yoab the son of TseruYah began to number, but did not finish;
1Chr- 27:24 Yoab the son of TseruYah began to number, but did not finish;
and because of this, wrath came upon Yisra’El,
and the number did not go up in the account of the words of the days of King Dawid.
Hence, there were 2 censuses out of which he completed one i.e., the men of war but he couldn't finish the second one i.e., every firstborn male from each tribe, because of this census, wrath came upon Yasharal. So, we see the wrath came because of the second census as every firstborn male in Yasharal were being numbered vs Levi which required half a sheqel offering for each of those counted in this census which became a sin for him.
If you notice in the 12 months census for men of war, there was no plague on Yasharal, the plague came when Yoab started numbering every firstborn male in Yasharal vs Levi and couldn't finish the numbering due to the plague. Moreover, the census for every firstborn male were to be done by sons of Aharon and not a commander of an army.
Whenever an instruction to number Yasharal and its tribes, it had to come from Yahuah as Masha was instructed by Yahuah. David tried to imitate by not measuring those twenty years old and below (only those above) but not with a purpose of every man giving a ransom unto the Yahuah.
Yahusha is the One who measures:
Eze 40:3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.(in Chapter 42 we see can read about him measuring the temple)
Zechariah also saw Messiah with a measuring line: Zec 2:1 ¶ I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
In David's measuring there was no ransom paid. Later when he repented on instruction of Gad the seer he offered the ransom as per Aluahym's measuring line.
2Sa 24:17 And David spake unto the YAHUAH when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. 18 ¶ And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the YAHUAH in the threshing floor of Araunah the Yebusite.19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the YAHUAH commanded.
The Angel who revealed to Yahuchanan/John the revelation of Messiah had the golden reed to measure the city. This angel unfolding these revelations to Yahuchanan is sent by to show that Messiah is the one who alone measures the temple with his dividing line (ransom).
Re 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
The language is symbolic, and we read Yahuchanan/John is given a reed like unto a rod to measure but there is no record of John doing the measuring.
Re 11:1 ¶ And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of Aluahym, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
The Exo 30 passages is aligned to the Numbers 3 census. In Numbers 3 all male Levites from a month old and upward (with no limit of age 50) were numbered vs every male firstborn in Yasharal. In Numbers 3 census, the half a sheqel was collected for a Levite vs a firstborn of Yasharal as Levites would bear their guilt before Yahuah when serving in the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:39 records that the count of the Levites in the census was 22,000 when they were numbered.
Num 3:39 All the numbered men of the Lewiim, whom Mosheh and Aharon numbered at the command of Yahuah by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
The first-born of the children of Yasharal were 22,273 (Numbers 3:43)
Num 3:43 and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were twenty-two thousand and two hundred seventy-three.
And for the extra 273 first-born of Yasharal five shekels for head-to-head were to be taken which amounts to 1,365 shekels (273 x 5) (Numbers 3:46-50). This excess ransom money of 1,365 sheqels were given to Aharon and his sons (Numbers 3:51) as their portion.
Num 3:45 Take the Lewiim instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Yisra’El and the cattle of the Lewiim instead of their cattle. And the Lewiim shall be Mine; I am Yahuah.
Num 3:46 For the ransom of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborns of the sons of Yisra’El who are in excess beyond the Lewiim,
Num 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them by the shekel of the sanctuary the shekel is twenty gerahs,
Num 3:48 and give the money, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and to his sons.
Num 3:49 So Mosheh took the ransom money from those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by the Lewiim;
Num 3:50 from the firstborn of the sons of Yisra’El he took the money by the shekel of the sanctuary, a thousand and three hundred sixty-five.
Num 3:51 Then Mosheh gave the money of those ransomed to Aharon and to his sons, at the command of Yahuah, just as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh.
The Hebrew word to look at in collection of the ransom money is the word ‘tarmah’ H8641 which KJV translates it as ‘offering’ and ISR 1998 translates it as ‘contribution’ which dilutes the meaning in English because the word ‘tarmah’ H8641 means ‘heave offering’. I have corrected the word to render the correct meaning in English because the ‘half a sheqel’ that is asked is from from both the rich and the poor alike as a ‘HEAVE OFFERING’ from the children of Yasharal.
Exo 30:15 “The rich does not give more, and the poor does not give less than half a sheqel, when you give a heave offering/tarmah H8641 to יהוה, to make atonement for your souls.
This census of Numbers 3 has a spiritual significance as it points to our Savior Mashiyach who would pay the ransom price for every head of the children of Yasharal at Galgatha. We saw the Levites fell short for every male firstborn in Yasharal, and hence for the additional 273, five shekels apiece, per head were taken where number 5 speaks of Torah. The verse further says the shekel of the sanctuary is 20 gerahs, hence, 5 sheqel's would be 100 gerah's where 100 is a complete number.
Num 3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece, per head/gul’goleth; you shall take them by the shekel of the sanctuary the shekel is twenty gerahs,
Joh 19:17 And bearing His stake, He went out to the so-called Place of a Skull/HEAD, which is called in Heḇrew, Galgatha,
Joh 19:18 where they impaled Him, and two others with Him, one on this side and one on that side, and יהושע in the middle.
The question that needs to be asked is, is the ‘half a sheqel’ an atonement for the soul? The answer lies in understanding the heave offering but before that this census sanctuary/temple tax was made a business during Yahusha's time as it was collected yearly (as post captivity) without the counting of the heads/census.
Matt 17:24 When they came to Kephar Nachum, those who collected the machatsyath/strike or pierce tax came to Kepha and said, does your teacher not pay the machatsyath/strike or pierce tax?
Matt 17:25 He said, Yes. And when he came into the house, Yahusha spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”
Matt 17:26 When Kepha said, From strangers, Yahusha said to him again, “Then the sons are exempt.”
Matt 17:27 “However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you shall find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”
This was the same tax of 'half a sheqel' as stated in Exodus 30:11-16 we are discussing about. Matthew records this as the 'machatsyath' tax and machats in Abary means 'strike/pierce'. The temple was in Yerushalayim, but the Temple tax was collected by tax collectors appointed by the chief priests and scribes. The verses begin by saying those who collected the machatsyath tax came to Kepha and asked whether his Teacher pays the machatsyath tax and he said yes. Yahusha in the house where they were gathered asks Kepha about the customs/poll tax the kings of the earth collect from strangers and not from citizens to make a point that as a Son of the land he had already paid the temple tax but so as not to offend them asks Kepha to hook in a fish in which he will find a sheqel and with it he asks Kepha to pay it for himself and him (half sheqel for each of them).
This was probably called the machatsyath/strike or pierce tax because the half a sheqel was paid to the Levites who would do the service of the Tent of the Meeting (now the Temple) and they bore the crookedness of anything that would go wrong in the service in the Temple.
Num 18:1 So Yahuah said to Aharon, You and your sons and your fathers’ house
with you shall bear the guilt of the sanctuary,
and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt of your priesthood.
Num 18:22 “And let the children of Yisra’ĕl not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin and die,
Num 18:23 because the Lĕwites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, so they themselves bear their crookedness. A law forever, throughout your generations: that among the children of Yisra’ĕl they are to have no inheritance,
Exo 38:26 a beqa H1235, that is half a sheqel for a head/galgalath H1538, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, for everyone passing over/abar to those counted, from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
The Abary word 'beqa' H1235 is a weight and a coin, and the word also means (H1234) make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win. The breaking of the one sheqel into two halves...a picture of the price being paid for every head/galgalath being part of the Temple.
The 'half a sheqel' called the 'machatsyath tax' was significant of the blood sacrifice of Mashiyach in a price paid full as a sheqel of the sanctuary and it was not a bloodless payment. Those who say it was bloodless do not understand the Torah and ruach hidden in it.
3. Numbers 4 census: Only for the Levites from all 3 verticals of Levi's sons i.e. Qahath, Gershom and Merrari. Those numbered were from 30 years upward unto 50 years.
Numbers 4:2-3, 4:22-23, 4:29-30 is elaborative of the three lines within Levites i.e., Gershonites, Qohathites & Merrarites with their duties. (Levi had 3 sons Gershom, Qohath and Merrari and these were their descendants).
Numbers 4 records Yahuah asking Masha to take a CENSUS of these 3 lineages from 30 years and above while Numbers 8 is the normal age for the entry level age requirement for a Levite i.e., 25 years and above.
census/rosh ראש H7218 is the head/captain/chief/the top/beginning or first of something.
Yahuah tells Masha to take the first of the heads count of the three verticals of Levites.
A. Qehathites:
Num 4:34 So Mosheh and Aharon and the leaders of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Qehathites by their families and by their father’s houses,
Num 4:36 Their numbered men by their families were two thousand and seven hundred and fifty.
B. Gershomites:
Num 4:38 The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their father’s houses,
Num 4:40 Their numbered men by their families, by their father’s households,
were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
C. Merarites:
Num 4:42 The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families,
by their father’s households,
Num 4:44 Their numbered men by their families were three thousand and two hundred.
Since, this was not a Levite vs firstborn of Yasharal census, this went without half a sheqel ransom money.
4. The census done by David for Levites post the ark coming to rest: 20 years and above males.
Looking at the passages closely this census was for the lineage of Qahathites (Not the priests serving inside the tabernacle), Gershomites and Merarites as the ark had come to a rest and there was no longer a need for the descendants of Qahathithes, Gershomites and Merarites as per Masha's Torah to carry the tabernacle, curtains, pillars, sockets, utensils of the tabernacle, altars etc. the work which was given to the Qahathites, Gershomites as well as Merrarites.
In the Torah of Moses which we will see a bit later in Numbers 8 (which is not a census) required an entry age of 25 years and exit age of 50 years for all three verticals of Levi i.e. The Qahatithes, the Gershomites and the Merarites. Notice the words in 1 Chr 23:28 'Because their office was at the hand of the sons of Aharon.' David did this census of the Levites from 20 years and above in his last days.
1Chr 23:24 These were the sons of Lewi according to the house of their fathers,
even the heads of the fathers, as they were counted by the number of names
by their census, doing the work for the service of the house of Yahuah,
from twenty years old and upward.
1Chr 23:25 For Dawid said, Yahuah the El of Yisra’El has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Yerushalam forever.
1Chr 23:26 And also unto the Lewiim there was no need to carry the tabernacle and all its utensils for its service.
1Chr 23:27 For by the last words of Dawid they were the sons of Lewi numbered from twenty years old and upward.
1Chr 23:28 Because their office was at the hand of the sons of Aharon with the service of the house of Yahuah, in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of the Elohim,
1Chr 23:29 and for the showbread, and for the fine flour for a grain offering, and for unleavened wafers, and for what is baked in the pan and for what is fried, and for every measure and size.
1Chr 23:30 And to stand morning by morning to thank and to praise Yahuah, and likewise at evening,
1Chr 23:31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahuah, in the Shabbats, in the Chadashim (new months) and on the appointed times, by number, according to the order commanded to them, continually before Yahuah.
1Chr 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the tent of appointment, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aharon their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahuah.
The rest of these verticals of Qahath, Gershom and Merari were aligned by David to be gatekeepers, music players, supporting the sons of Aharon who were priest's descendants of Qahath etc.
1Chr 15:16 And Dawid spoke to the chiefs of the Lewiim to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, harps, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
1Chr 15:17 So the Lewiim appointed Heyman the son of Yo’El, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of BerekYahu; and from the sons of Merari their brothers, Eythan the son of QushaYahu,
1Chr 15:18 and with them their brothers of the second rank, ZekarYahu, Ben, and Yaazi’El, and Shemiramoth, and Yechi’El, and Unni, Eliab, and BenaYahu, and MaaseYahu, and MattithYahu, and Eliphelehu, and MiqneYahu, and Obed-edom and Yei’El, the gatekeepers.
1Chr 15:19 And the singers, Heyman, Asaph and Eythan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;
1Chr 15:20 and ZekarYah, and Azi’El, and Shemiramoth, and Yechi’El, and Unni, and Eliab, and MaaseYahu and BenaYahu, with harps tuned to Alamoth;
1Chr15:21 and MattithYahu, and Eliphelehu, and MiqneYahu, and Obed-edom, and Yei’El and AzazYahu, with lyres on the Sheminith to excel.
1Chr15:22 And KenanYahu, chief of the Lewiim, was in charge of the singing; he gave instruction in singing because he was skillful.
1Chr15:23 And BerekYah and Elqanah were gatekeepers for the ark.
1Chr15:24 And ShebanYahu, and Yoshaphat, and Nethan’El, and Amasay, and ZekarYahu, and BenaYahu and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of the Elohim. Obed-edom and YechYah also were gatekeepers for the ark.
1Chr15:25 So it was Dawid, with the elders of Yisra’El and the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahuah from the house of Obed-edom with joy.
Twenty-four sons of the three chief musicians were chosen to head up divisions to correspond with the courses of priests. These three were originally chosen by the tribal leader to be the musicians when the ark was moved to Yerushalayim (see 1 Chronicles 15:16-24). The sons of Asaph, of the Levitical sub-tribe of Gershom (Gershom, Kohath and Merari being the three sons of Levi), had four of the divisions. Asaph had been the chief musician assigned to minister before the Ark of the Covenant in Yerushalayim (see 1 Chronicles 16:4-7, 37). He, too, composed psalms, with 12 of them bearing his name (Psalms 50; 73-83). The sons of Yeduthun, of the sub-tribe of Merari, had six divisions. Yeduthun is known as Ethan in many scriptures and, along with Heman, served at the tabernacle in Gibeon while the ark was in Yerushalayim (see 1 Chronicles 16:39-42). The sons of Heman, of the sub-tribe of Qahath, made up the remaining 14 divisions. Heman was the grandson of the prophet Samuel, and descendant of Korah. One psalm is attributed to Heman (Psalm 88), but 10 others (42; 44-49; 84-85; 87) are attributed to the sons of Korah, which would include Heman and his descendants. Additional information can be found in 1 Chronicles 6:31-48.
Not all Qahathites were chosen as priests who would offer sacrifices, incense etc. The descendants of Aharon who was also son of Qahath were given this charge. The other Qahathites were subject to service for work relating to the Tent of Meeting. They camped along the south side of the Tabernacle and were in charge of the most sacred objects, the Ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the sacred utensils, and the screen, all of which they carried on their shoulders. The sons of Qahath were granted a privilege greater than that awarded to the other clans of the Levites, the Gershonites and the Merarites, in that they bore their burden on staves, unlike others who carried them on ox wagons (Num 7:8–9)
Num 7:6 So Mosheh took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Lewiim.
Num 7:7 Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service,
Num 7:8 and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aharon the priest.
Num 7:9 But he did not give any to the sons of Qehath because the service of the holy objects belonged to them, which they carried on the shoulder.
There were more hands required now that the ark was at rest in Yerushalayim, hence, the census taken for these Levites who now were appointed as supporting the sons of Aharon, singers, gatekeepers etc.
To understand this better we must see Numbers 8 where the age for Levites mentioned.
The entry age mentioned in Numbers 4 for all 3 verticals of Levites mentioned is 30 years and the exit age mentioned is 50 years. David in his final census of the Levites numbered 20 years and above but doesn't put an exit age for them in the census.
Num 8:23 Now Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, saying
Num 8:24 This is that what pertains to the Lewiim: from twenty-five years old
and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of appointment.
Num8:25 But at the age of fifty years they shall return from service in the work and not work anymore.
Num8:26 They shall minister their brothers in the tent of appointment, to keep an obligation/mishmereth H4931,
but they shall do no work. Thus, you shall deal with the Lewiim concerning their obligation/mishmereth H4931.
משמרת mishmereth H4931 is from משמר H4929 which means guard/charge/keep/safeguard/custodian and also has the root word shamar שמר which also means to keep/guard.
Those above 50 had an option to return back home or continue to be guardians to the other priests in their respective ministry to teach them the right way if they would error in their priestly duties. They were placed as guardians. Hence, David now understood Torah and didn't put an exit age for them. However, he probably did a check for readiness for males from 20 and above instead of 25 to be put under these guardians for learning Torah. If you remember, when he himself as well as the priests were ignorant and carried the ark on the oxen cart, and when the oxen had stumbled, Uzzah put out his hand to hold the ark and was killed by Yahuah there. David was frightened and instead of taking the ark of the covenant to Yerushalayim, he kept it at the house of Obed Edom. And when he learnt that Yahuah had blessed the household of Obed Edom, he moved the ark to Yerushalayim in the correct manner with the Levites carrying the ark on their shoulder.
He himself also had erred in conducting the firstborn males vs Levi census for which the plague came which we saw.
To rule out such ignorance, David would have done a readiness check for the entry age to priesthood, for priests to be under these retired guardians.
Numbers 3, 4 & 1 Chr 23:27 records a census for Levites but Numbers 8 is not a census but a norm for an age for a priest. Remember Numbers 1 was census for men of war and Levites were not numbered in them.
Hence, we see there is no contradiction in Yahuah's dabar once we understand the correct perspective of the census.
Exo 21:32 “If the ox/shur H7794 gores a servant/abad or female servant/amah, he is to give to their adonayu/Master thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is stoned.
Shur H7790 also means 'watcher/enemy'
The basarah/gospel is hidden in the Torah passage:
When the ox/shur which also means 'watcher/enemy' gores a servant/abad (Adam and Qayin were tillers H5647) and a maidservant/amah (amah was also a measure 'cubit' H520) the master/baal H1167 (see context Exo 21:28) of the shur had to pay 30 sheqels of silver to the adonayu/Master (referring to Mashiyach) and the shur had to to stoned.
Putting the above sentence without the brackets: When the watcher comes against the servants in the measures of Torah, the baal/master is required to pay the Adonayu/Master the price of 30 sheqel's of silver and the shur/watcher had to be stoned.
Hos 2:16 “And it shall be, in that day,” declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My Husband/ayash H376,’ and no longer call Me ‘My Baal.’
Through the watching through the Torah he gored/thrust himself to any form of disobedience to Torah
Zech 11:8 Then I cut off the three shepherds in one month/yarach (lunar month), for my being despised them, and their being also loathed me.
9 So I said, “I am not shepherding you. Let the dying die, and the straying stray, and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
10 And I took my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it in two, to break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11 So it was broken on that day. And the poor of the flock, who were guarding/shamar H8104 me, knew that it was the word of יהוה.
12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages. And if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
13 And יהוה said to me, “Throw it to the potter,/yatsar H3335” the splendid price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the House of יהוה for the potter.
Psalms 2: 1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate emptiness?
2 The sovereigns of the earth take their stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against יהוה and against His Messiah, and say,
The three shepherds spoken of in Zechariah 11:8 who are cut off who stood against Yahuah and the Mashiyach were scribes, elders and priests
The poor of the flock who were guarding/shamar Me (Yahuah) knew it was the word of Yahuah (Zech 11:11)
Psalms 2:9 Break them with a rod of iron, Dash them to pieces like a potter’s/yatsar H3335 vessel.’ ”
'yatsar' also means form/fashion. In verse 13 Yahuah says to throw the thirty pieces of silver to the potter. He is the potter.
Isa 64:8 And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter/yatsar H3335. And we are all the work of Your hand.
The price with which he was valued at he calls it a splendid price. Splendid price is a figure of speech. It was the price of selling a slave. Yoseph was sold by his brothers to Yishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, Yahudah Iscariot with the scribes, elders and priests valued Mashiyach at thirty pieces of silver (a price of a slave in his day).
Gen 37:28 And men, Miḏyanite traders passed by, so they pulled Yosĕph up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Yishmaʽĕlites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Yosĕph to Mitsrayim.
Matt 26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Yehuḏah from Qerioth, went to the chief priests,
15 and said, “What would you give me to deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
Matt 27:3 Then Yehuḏah – he who delivered Him up – having seen that He had been condemned, repented, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and to the elders,
4 saying, “I have sinned in delivering up innocent blood.” And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
5 And throwing down the pieces of silver in the Dwelling Place he left, and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not right to put them into the treasury, seeing they are the price of blood.”
7 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field, for the burial of strangers/hagaryam.
The picture is of Yahuah who was called 'baali/master' by Yasharal is the one evaluating Himself with a price of a slave, the 'watcher/shur' is ha shatan who accused the brethren through Torah, who came through Torah laws goring the servants/abad who were disobeying his measures/amah and in his mercy paying the price for the goring the servant as dying on the stake as Yahusha.
He paid the price for goring... It says the ox/watcher shall be stoned i.e., killed.
Rev12:10 And I heard a loud voice in the heavens, saying, Now the salvation of our El and His power and His kingdom and the authority of His Mashiyach have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down and stands to accuse them
before our El day and night.
The master of the shur and the master of the servant spiritually is ONE i.e. Yahuah who is the ADON.
It was the price of blood and Yahudah (Judas) Iscariot threw the 30 pieces of silver in the Temple and went and hanged himself, and the chief priests took the 30 silver pieces and since it was the price of blood they didn't put it into the Temple treasury but bought the potter's field for the burial of strangers/hagaryam (Hagar is the bondwoman with her children (yam) hidden in this word). The ruach is hidden in the letter.
The half a sheqel tax went into the temple treasury as the sheqel of the sanctuary (Exo 30:13) for the atonement for the soul while the 30 pieces of silver at which He was valued at by carnal men went into buying a potter's field where Hagar the bondwoman and her children in bondage were buried. Out of these children in bondage, the price at which He was valued at would release His lost sheep from Hagar.
If the value of a slave is 30 shekels of silver as seen that if an ox gores a slave, the owner has to give the master of the slave 30 pieces of silver. No Hebrew was to ever be sold as a slave to a non Yahudite. The Talmud states the penalty for selling a Hebrew slave to a non-Yahudite is ten times the sale price, what is the total penalty? 30 x 10 brothers as in the case of Yahusaph representing the 10 tribes of Yasharal = 300 shekels of silver. It was considered a great evil to sell a Hebrew as a slave for the Torah commanded not to treat a Hebrew as a slave but a hired servant and every 7 years or at yobel/jubilee he went out free unless he chose to stay with his master. You may read these laws in Exo 21 and Lev 25.
Banyaman was not involved in the selling of his brother, hence the price a slave is valued at x 10 times restoration was made to the son of the right hand, that's what the name Banyaman means. He was even given 5 changes of garments, the completeness of Torah. Now why Banyaman was given this and not the other 10 brothers?
A little rewind to the account shows that Yahusaph called his brothers spies and his brothers replied to him as stated in Gen 42:13
Gen 42:13 And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kenaʽan. And see, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.”
Yahusaph pretended harshness on his brothers and asked them to bring their youngest brother Banyaman to him and put them 3 days in prison. Then they kept Shimon as a guarantee until they would return with Banyaman
Gen 42:16 “Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies!”
Gen 42:17 And he put them all together in prison for three days.
Gen 42:18 Now Yosĕph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear Elohim:
Gen 42:19 “If you are trustworthy, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, and you, go, bring grain for the scarcity of food of your houses.
Gen 42:20 “And bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, and you do not die.” And so they did.
Gen 42:24 And he turned himself away from them and wept, but came back to them and spoke to them. And he took Shimʽon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Gen 42:36 And Yaʽaqoḇ their father said to them, “You have bereaved me – Yosĕph is no more, and Shimʽon is no more, and you would take Binyamin! All this is against me.”
When the brothers returned with Banyaman, Yahusaph had his cup put in Banyaman's sack and when they were arrested and brought back to him, Yahusaph told them "The man in whose hand the cup was found, he becomes my slave"
Gen 44:17 But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup was found, he becomes my slave. And you, go up in peace to your father.”
And when Yahusaph couldn't restrain himself from his brothers, he made a full restoration of 300 pieces of silver and 5 changes of garments for his word to keep his brother as slave.
Gen 45:22 He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.
Five changes of garments show the completeness of Turah where number 5 refers to the 5 Torah books. What about the three hundred pieces of silver?
Similarly, the 10 tribes who are the lost sheep of the house of Yasharal, for which Yahusha came to seek and save, impaled Him on the stake. The Gentiles spoken of are from the 10 tribes of the house of Yasharal.
Act 4:26 ‘The sovereigns of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against יהוה and against His Messiah.
Act 4:27 “For truly, in this city there were gathered together against Your set-apart Servant יהושע, whom You anointed, both Herodes and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and the people of Yisra’ĕl
The restoration for selling Yahusha would also be 10 times as he was valued at 30 pieces of silver and the basarah is hidden in the Yahusaph's account with his brothers.
Jer 30:11 ‘For I am with you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to save you. Though I make a complete end of all gentiles where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’
Mariyam took a costly perfume of nard, anointed the feet of יהושע, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. When Yahudah from Qerioth who was to sell Yahusha for 30 pieces of silver along with others in the house of Shimon valued the perfume at 300 pieces of silver, Yahusha told them to leave her alone and said she has done this to anoint My body for the burial.
Mar 14:3 And while He was in Bĕyth Anyah in the house of Shimʽon the leper, and sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of perfume, genuine nard, very costly. And breaking the flask she poured it on His head.
Mar 14:4 But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, and said, “Why was this perfume wasted?
Mar 14:5 “For it could have been sold for more than three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.
Mar 14:6 But יהושע said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.
Mar 14:7 “For you have the poor with you always, and you are able do good to them, whenever you wish. But you do not always have Me.
Mar 14:8 “What she had, she used. She took it beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.
Mar 14:9 “Truly, I say to you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what this woman did shall also be spoken of, to her remembrance.”
Joh 12:3 Then Miryam took a pound of costly perfume of nard, anointed the feet of יהושע, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Joh 12:4 Then one of His taught ones, Yehuḏah from Qerioth, son of Shimʽon, who was about to deliver Him up, said,
Joh 12:5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor?”
Joh 12:6 And he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and he used to take what was put in it.
This basharah when preached in all the world will be preached to her rememberance/zakar. The Hebrew name 'Maryam' means "sea of bitterness" or "sea of sorrow." The lost sheep of the house of Yasharal are in dispersion of nations away from their ethnicity in a pagan land as being in the 'sea of sorrow'. They shall look on Me whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as a yachid/only begotten is the picture.
Yahusaph was sold into slavery by his 10 brothers to the Midyanites who in turn sold him to the Yishmaelites who are non Yahudim for 20 pieces of silver, a value lesser than a slave.
Hence, the sin of his brothers were grevious because:
1. They were never to sell a Hebrew to Non Yahudite
2. The price valued for a servant was 30 pieces of silver, but His brothers sold him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver, a lesser value.
3. Being in slavery the hope of release after every 7 years or at yobel/jubilee was lost
Yet, we see Yoseph, Mashiyach likeness restoring the 300 pieces of silver for his 10 brothers who would be the 10 tribes of Yasharal with a correct price restoration but given to the 'Son of the Right Hand' i.e. Banyaman.
We saw in the ransom money of half a sheqel for every firstborn male in Yasharal, the Levites bearing the guilt of the tabernacle on their behalf fell short by 273 and hence 5 sheqel's or 100 gerah's had to be collected for each head/galgalath amounting to 1365 sheqel's. (Numbers 3:46-51). This number would increase as later there is no record of the ransom/atonement money being collected, but we see tax collectors placed by the Sanhedrin to collect the temple tax from the people. Hence, the Levitical priesthood fell short in bearing the guilt for every firstborn male of Yasharal. Hence, we see Yahusha the Malchitsedek paying the ransom for our guilt as He is the yachyid/firstborn.
Luke 3:23 And Yahusha began His work, and He was about thirty years old.
He was considered the son of Yoseph, the son of Eli,
It is written Yahusha began His work when He was about thirty years old and as per census Yahuah Himself shows in scripture, He was considerd the son of Yoseph, the son of Eli. His entire genealogy is listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. He has no exit age i.e. He doesn't retire as He lives forever.
Heb 7:8 And here it is the sons of men who die that receive tithes,
but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed about him that he lives.
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were through the priesthood of the sons of Lewi,
in which is under it the people were given the Law), why is this still necessary to rise
another priest after the order of Melkitsedeq, and not be called after the order of Aharon?
Heb 7:12 For when the priesthood is changed,
there is a necessity that a change is made to the Torah also.
Why is a census recorded by Luke?
The Greek says taxed instead of census and the Greek word used is G583 apographo which means 'enroll/tax/write'
The Aramaic uses the word nethkatheb {written, i.e. registered in a census}.
Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days a decree went out from Qeysar Ogustos,
that a census be taken of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Luke 2:2 This was the first census taken while Quirinios was the leader of Surya.
Luke 2:3 And everyone went to be counted, each to his own city.
Luke 2:4 Yoseph also went up from the Galil, from the city of Natsereth,
to Yahudah, to the city of Dawid called Beyth lechem,
because he was from the house and from his family,
Luke 2:5 to be counted with Miryam, who was betrothed to him, being pregnant.
Miryam here is counted as she was pregnant. And later when He was born, Shimon and Anna prophesied of His death for His people.
The Romans were ruling over Yahudah and all taxes had to be paid to Ceasar. The Yerushalayim council had no right to conduct a census as per Torah of Masha, but they continued to collect the temple tax as we saw through tax collectors which was not lawful, and it was time for their end. Yahuah is showing us that His lost sheep are scattered to the ends of the earth and a pagan ruler is conducting a census, but for the sake of His elect to gather them, he shows us this census of His firstborn vs all firstborn in Yasharal (as all his elect would receive the firstborn berekah) through the lineage of Yahudah.
Why did Qayapha prophesy that the death of one man on behalf of the nation is better for us than the destruction of the entire people? He said this unknowingly, but He prophesied of Yahusha the Malchitsedek priest who would die for His people to give them the firstborn berekah as He was the one who received the atonement tax for His people. He is the firstborn/yachyid.
John 11:49 One of them, Qayapha, who was high priest that year, said to them,
“You do not know anything.”
John 11:50 “You do not even understand that the death of one man
on the behalf of the nation is better for us than the destruction of the entire people.”
John 11:51 He did not speak this word of His own heart. For he was the high priest
that year and was prophesying that Yahusha would die on the behalf of the people.
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