11. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
12. “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the Lord, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
13. They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.
14. Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the Lord.