Eccl12and13: i have my bible in front of me and the selections do not match your text(?)!) You meant Exodus 30: ; Numbers not in the 10, 20 or 30's chapters; etc.
When I was searching for God, I was in a Denver hospital for several months and visited with a Rabbi several times, he had told me the age of responsibility was considered to be 13. Same question brought answers of 8 or 9 from the Baptists. Others have told me when a child knows right from wrong, maybe as young as 4 or even 6 years old!For me, I realized that there must be a God at 13, but it took me until 18 to come full circle on that thought.....
Thank you for the correction. Here are the correct Books, chap, and verses;
Exod.30
[11] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[12] When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
[13] This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
[14] Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
[15] The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Num.1
[3] From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
[18] And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
[20] And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Num.14
[26] And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
[27] How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
[28] Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
[29] Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Num.32
[11] Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
We find that God did not hold any accountable for sin under 20yrs old. That God only sent those that were 20yrs old and above to war. And that none that were 20yrs and older, other than Caleb and Joshua, were allowed into the promised land.
It would appear that God's age of accountability for man is 20yrs old.
Again....thanks for the correction.
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