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Instructions for Numbering the People

11 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12 When you take a census of[a] the Israelites[b] to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them. 13 This they will give, everyone who is counted,[c] the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel is a contribution for Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 30:12 Literally “when you lift up the heads of”
  2. Exodus 30:12 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Exodus 30:13 Literally “all of the going over to the being counted”