12 “When you take a census(A) of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom(B) for himself to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague(C) will come on them as they are registered.

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12 “When you take a census(A) of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom(B) for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague(C) will come on them when you number them.

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12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

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Yet these cannot redeem a person[a]
or pay his ransom to God(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 49:7 Or Certainly he cannot redeem himself, or Yet he cannot redeem a brother

No one can redeem the life of another
    or give to God a ransom for them—

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None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

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18 The wicked are a ransom for the righteous,
and the treacherous, for[a] the upright.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:18 Or in place of

18 The wicked become a ransom(A) for the righteous,
    and the unfaithful for the upright.

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18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

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