12 “Whenever you take the sum of the sons of Israel as a census of them,*+ then they must each give a ransom* for his soul* to Jehovah when* taking a census of them,+ that there may come to be no plague upon them when taking a census of them.+

13 This is what all those will give who pass over to those numbered: a half shekel by the shekel* of the holy place.*+ Twenty geʹrahs* equal a shekel. A half shekel is the contribution to Jehovah.+

14 Everyone passing over to those registered from twenty years old and upward will give Jehovah’s contribution.+

16 And you must take the silver money of the atonement from the sons of Israel and give it in behalf of the service of the tent of meeting,+ that it may indeed serve as a memorial before Jehovah for the sons of Israel, to make atonement for YOUR souls.”