“The 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.”
Exodus 30:15 (WEB)
Context Reading
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. 16You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.” 17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,