“They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekelof the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.”
Exodus 30:13 (WEB)
Context Reading
11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them. 13They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekelof the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. 14Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
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