30 ¹¹ Yahweh said to Moses, 30 ¹² "When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for himself to Yahweh when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 30 ¹³ Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to Yahweh. 30 ¹⁴ Every one who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give Yahweh's offering. 30 ¹⁵ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give Yahweh's offering to make atonement for yourselves. 30 ¹⁶ And you shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before Yahweh, so as to make atonement for yourselves."