And the king called for Jehoiada the head, and said to him, Why have you not commanded the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the offering of Moses, the servant of Jehovah, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of the testimony?
And in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, in order to accomplish the Word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, Jehovah awakened the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia, and he caused a voice to pass throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
When you lift up the head of the sons of Israel, of those numbered, each man shall give the ransom of his soul to Jehovah when numbering them; and there shall not be a plague among them when numbering them.