The Ransom Money

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^12 (A)“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ^(B)a^[a] ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no ^(C)plague among them when you number them. ^13 (D)This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ^(E)(a shekel is twenty gerahs). ^(F)The half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an ^[b]offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The ^(G)rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves. ¹⁶ And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and ^(H)shall ^[c]appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be ^(I)a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”

²⁵ And the silver from those who were ^(A)numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

^26 (A)a bekah for ^[a]each man (that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone included in the numbering from twenty years old and above, for ^(B)six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.

^6 (A)So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of ^(B)Moses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel, for the ^(C)tabernacle of witness?”

⁹ And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord ^(A)the collection that Moses the servant of God had imposed on Israel in the wilderness.