World English Bible
Exodus 30:12
“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.”
Verse in context — Exodus 30
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
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God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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