Exo 30:12, 15-16, Lev 17:11 | ESV | STEP | When you take the census of the people of Israel , then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

a Num. 1:2-4; 26:2; 2 Sam. 24:2

b ch. 21:30; Num. 31:50; [Ps. 49:7]

c[See ver. 13 above]

dSee ch. 38:25-31

e[ch. 28:12; 39:7; Num. 16:40]

f ver. 14

g[Matt. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14, 20; Heb. 13:12; 1 John 1:7; Rev. 1:5]

h Heb. 9:22

Exodus 30:12

12 ^a“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give ^ba ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

Exodus 30:15-16

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than ^cthe half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives. 16 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall ^dgive it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to ^eremembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

Leviticus 17:11

11 ^fFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar ^gto make atonement for your souls, ^hfor it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.