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Exodus 30:15

WEB

15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,[+] when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

KJV

15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

BSB

15In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.

FBV

15When you give this offering to buy back your lives the rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less.

Related Resources

Book of Exodus Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Numbers 31:50

50We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”


Exodus 30:12

12When 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.


Job 34:19

19He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.


Ephesians 6:9

9You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.


Leviticus 17:11

11For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.


Colossians 3:25

25But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.


2 Samuel 21:3

3and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?”


Proverbs 22:2

2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.