Read Exodus 30.1-31.11
In 30.1-31.11: The Lord gives instructions for other matters related to the priests and the worship sanctuary.
In verse 10: Once a year would be the Day of Atonement as specified in greater detail in Lev 16.
In verses 11-13: the act of taking a census or counting the people for military or administrative purposes was believed to arouse the deity's anger, thereby bringing on a plague (2 Sam 24.10).
Thus each person had to pay a ransom or fee of half a shekel in order to ward off the plague.
Numbers 1.17-47 records the first census taken of the Israelites in the wilderness.
In 31.2-6: The divine spirit (v. 3) fill the two skilled workers, Bezalel (v. 2) and Oholiab (v. 6), with ability, intelligence, and knowledge in their particular skills of artistry and construction.
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