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Exodus 30:14

12 “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.

13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.

15 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

16 Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.
KJV
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
WEB
Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.
ASV
Every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah.
DARBY
Every one that passeth among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the heave-offering of Jehovah.
BLB
Everyone passing over among those who are numbered, from a son of twenty years and above, shall give a contribution of YHWH.
ÅB
Enhver som kommer med i manntallet fra tyveårsalderen og oppover, skal gi denne gave til Herren.
OTB
Alle som er tjue år eller mer som blir telt, skal gi denne gaven til Herren.
B1930
Enhver som kommer med i manntallet fra tyveårsalderen og opover, skal gi denne gave til Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Numbers 1:20

    From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

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  • Numbers 26:2

    “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

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  • Numbers 32:11

    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

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  • Numbers 14:29

    Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

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  • Numbers 1:18

    and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

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  • Numbers 1:3

    You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

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