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Counting the Israelites

11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “When you take a census of the Israelites, each person must pay the Lord a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will happen to them when they are counted. 13 As each person is counted, he must give one-fifth of an ounce of silver using the standard weight of the holy place.[a] This one-fifth of an ounce of silver is a contribution to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:13 Hebrew adds, “There are 20 gerahs to the standard shekel.”

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