Exodus 30:11-15
Exodus 30:11
The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying,
Exodus 30:12
“When you take a census of the sons of Israel to count them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
Exodus 30:13
This is what everyone who is counted shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.
Exodus 30:14
Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the Lord.
Exodus 30:15
The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.