Moses
Exodus 30:11BSB·traditional attribution
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Matthew Henry Presbyterian
God did not pour all these precepts out at once on the mountain, but gave them in intervals, as Moses could receive and record them. This half-shekel tax shows that rich and poor are equally precious to the Lord: neither more nor less demanded, because souls have no price distinction before Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 30:11-16
John Gill Reformed Baptist
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... Continued his discourse; or, there being some intermission, reassumed it: saying; as follows.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, &c.--Moses did so twice, and doubtless observed the law here prescribed. The tax was not levied from women, minors, old men (Num 1:42, Num 1:45), and the Levites (Num 1:47), they being not numbered.