Exodus 30:14
12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
15 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.
16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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.
Compare
- 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
And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Read in contextNumbers 26:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Read in contextNumbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Read in contextNumbers 14:29
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Read in contextNumbers 1:18
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Read in contextNumbers 1:3
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
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