Chapter 30
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
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When you take a census of the sons of Israel for numbering them, then they shall give, each man a ransom for his soul to the LORD when numbering them, so that there shall not be a plague among them when I number them.
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Everyone who passes over among those counted shall give this: half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary—twenty gerahs is a shekel. Half a shekel is the offering to the LORD.
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Everyone among those who are mustered—from a son twenty years old and upward—shall give the contribution of the LORD.
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The rich shall not give more of it, and the poor shall not give less of it than half a shekel, to give the contribution of the LORD to make atonement for your vital life forces.
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And you shall take the silver of the atonement payments from the sons of Israel, and you shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting; and it shall be for the sons of Israel for a memorial before the LORD to atone for your lives.