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"When you take a census of the people of Isra'el and register them, each, upon registration, is to pay a ransom for his life to ADONAI, to avoid any breakout of plague among them during the time of the census.
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Everyone subject to the census is to pay as an offering to ADONAI half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce of silver]- by the standard of the sanctuary shekel (a shekel equals twenty gerahs).
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Everyone over twenty years of age who is subject to the census is to give this offering to ADONAI -
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the rich is not to give more or the poor less than the half-shekel when giving ADONAI's offering to atone for your lives.
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You are to take the atonement money from the people of Isra'el and use it for the service in the tent of meeting, so that it will be a reminder of the people of Isra'el before ADONAI to atone for your lives."
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"You are to make a basin of bronze, with a base of bronze, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
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Aharon and his sons will wash their hands and feet there
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when they enter the tent of meeting - they are to wash with water, so that they won't die. Also when they approach the altar to minister by burning an offering for ADONAI,
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they are to wash their hands and feet, so that they won't die. This is to be a perpetual law for them through all their generations."