David asked the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? How may I make atonement so that you would bless the inheritance of Adonai?”
Exodus 30:15 - Tree of Life Version The rich are not to give more and the poor are not to give less than the half shekel, when they present the offering of Adonai to make atonement for your souls. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 The rich shall not add to the half shekel, and the poor shall diminish nothing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The rich man shall not add to half a sicle: and the poor man shall diminish nothing. |
David asked the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? How may I make atonement so that you would bless the inheritance of Adonai?”
Who shows no partiality before princes, and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands.
“When you tally the sum of Bnei-Yisrael by numbering them, then every man must pay a ransom for his soul to Adonai when you count them, so that no plague will fall on them.
Everyone who crosses over among them who is counted, from 20 years old and upward, is to give the offering to Adonai.
You are to take the atonement money from Bnei-Yisrael and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, so that it may be a memorial for Bnei-Yisrael before Adonai, to make atonement for your souls.”
that is, a beka, or half a shekel per head, according to the shekel of the Sanctuary, for everyone who was recorded, from 20 years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
“All the people of the land must give this contribution to the prince in Israel.
For the life of the creature 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 because of the life.
So we have brought as an offering to Adonai the gold items each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces to atone for ourselves before Adonai.”
And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Stop using threats, knowing that the Master—of them and of you, too—is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
For the one doing wrong will be paid back for what he did wrong, and there is no favoritism.