15The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.


In Context

12 "When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

13 Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord .

14 All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the Lord .

15 The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.

16 Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord , making atonement for your lives."

17 Then the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 30:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:15The 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when ye give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:15The 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD to make an atonement for your souls.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:15the rich doth not multiply, and the poor doth not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.