Exodus 30:12

The Atonement Money

¹¹ The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² “When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. ¹³ This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

Children of Israel

Give to the Lord

People of Israel

Sons of Israel

Take a Census

To the Lord

Israel

Israelites

Jehovah

No

Numbers 31:50

So we have brought as an offering to the Lord what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

Exodus 38:25-26

The silver of those of the congregation who were numbered was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Psalm 49:7

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Numbers 1:2-5

“Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head

Numbers 26:2-4

“Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ households, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel.”

2 Samuel 24:1-15

Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

1 Chronicles 21:12

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 21:14

So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; 70,000 men of Israel fell.

1 Chronicles 27:24

Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to count them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David.

2 Chronicles 24:6

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of the Lord on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?”

Job 33:24

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

Job 36:18

“Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing;
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

1 Timothy 2:6

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,