Exodus 30:10–16

^10sAaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the ^tsin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

The Census Tax

¹¹The Lord said to Moses, ^12u“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give ^va ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. ¹³Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel² according to the ^wshekel of the sanctuary (the ^xshekel is twenty gerahs),^{3 y}half a shekel as an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering. ¹⁵The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than ^ythe half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives. ¹⁶You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall ^zgive it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to ^aremembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”