The rich must not give more and the poor must not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.
When you take the census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the Lord when you count them, so that there be no plague among them when you number them.
You must take the atonement money of the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial to the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.
one bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who was numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
We have brought an offering for the Lord, what every man has gotten of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and pendants, to make an atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”