The Ransom Money

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^12 (A)“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ^(B)a^[a] ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no ^(C)plague among them when you number them. ^13 (D)This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ^(E)(a shekel is twenty gerahs). ^(F)The half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an ^[b]offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The ^(G)rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves. ¹⁶ And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and ^(H)shall ^[c]appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be ^(I)a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”