Exodus 30:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, when you bring this offering to the Lord to make atonement for your lives.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when [you] give this offering to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ When you bring this gift offering to the LORD to pay compensation for your lives, the rich shouldn’t give more and the poor shouldn’t give less than the half shekel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The rich shall not add to the half shekel, and the poor shall diminish nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ The rich man shall not add to half a sicle: and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

Exodus 30:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:3

David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”

Job 34:19

who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Exodus 30:12

“When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.

Exodus 30:14

Each one who is registered, from twenty years old and up, shall give the Lord’s offering.

Exodus 30:16

You shall take the atonement money from the Israelites and shall designate it for the service of the tent of meeting; before the Lord it will be a reminder to the Israelites of the ransom given for your lives.”

Exodus 38:26

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel) for everyone who was counted in the census, from twenty years old and up, for six hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty men.

Proverbs 22:2

The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Ezekiel 45:16

All the people of the land shall join in making this offering in Israel through the prince.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar, for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement.

Numbers 31:50

And we have brought the Lord’s offering, what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

Ephesians 6:9

And, masters, do the same to them. Stop threatening them, for you know that both of you have the same Lord in heaven, and with him there is no partiality.

Colossians 3:25

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong has been done, and there is no partiality.