Hey, look! Drippy's back and still blathering bullshit.
The priests who ran the temple required that the Tyrian shekel - oddly, a coin with the pagan god Melqart on the reverse -
http://www.biblediscovered.com/jerusalem...iscovered/
Anyway, as your bullshit story goes this practice was instituted by fucking moses himself so your silly attempt to blame the money changers for doing what the priests demanded falls flat.
Which is about par for the course with you.
The priests who ran the temple required that the Tyrian shekel - oddly, a coin with the pagan god Melqart on the reverse -
Quote:The shekel, with the laureate head of Melqarth-Herakles (a pagan deity) on the obverse and an eagle (a graven image) on the reverse, averaged 14.2 grams in weight and contained at least 94% silver.
http://www.biblediscovered.com/jerusalem...iscovered/
Anyway, as your bullshit story goes this practice was instituted by fucking moses himself so your silly attempt to blame the money changers for doing what the priests demanded falls flat.
Which is about par for the course with you.