Exodus 30:10–16

¹⁰And ^gAaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

The Ransom Money

¹¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ^12h“When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give ⁱa ³ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no ^jplague among them when you number them. ^13kThis is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ^l(a shekel is twenty gerahs). ^mThe half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an ⁴offering to the Lord. ¹⁵The ⁿrich 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. ¹⁶And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and ^oshall ⁵appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be ^pa memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.”