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Exodus 30:11-16. The census contribution. Instructional tableau of rich and poor adult hands offering the same weighed silver amount. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 30:11-16

The census contribution

The incense altar · Exodus 30

Story guide: Each counted Israelite gives half a shekel, rich and poor alike, for the tent of meeting.

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11And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12When you take a census of the sons of Israel according to those numbered among them, then each man shall give to Yahweh a ransom for his life when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

13This is what everyone who passes over to those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to Yahweh.

14Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give Yahweh’s contribution.

15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half-shekel, when giving the contribution to Yahweh to make atonement for your lives.

16You shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, and it shall be for the sons of Israel as a memorial before Yahweh, to make atonement for your lives.

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