Exodus 30:12-16
Read Exodus 30 in full →12“When you take aa 1census of the sons of Israel 2to number them, then each one of them shall give ba price of atonement for 3himself to Yahweh when you 4number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you 5number them. 13“This is what everyone who 1is numbered shall give: half a 2shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (athe shekel is twenty 3gerahs), half a shekel as a 4contribution to Yahweh. 14“Everyone who 1is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the 2contribution to Yahweh. 15“The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel when you give the 1contribution to Yahweh to make atonement for your souls. 16“And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a remembrance for the sons of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”