Exodus 30:15

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The 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 atonement for your souls.

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  • Prov 22:2 : 2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, refraining from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
  • Col 3:25 : 25 But he who does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.
  • Exod 30:12 : 12 When you take a census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.
  • Lev 17:11 : 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
  • Num 31:50 : 50 We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 21:3 : 3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
  • Job 34:19 : 19 How much less to Him who does not respect the persons of princes nor regard the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    12When you take a census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.

    13This they shall give, everyone who is numbered, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs): a half shekel shall be the offering to the LORD.

    14Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD.

  • 16And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

  • Num 31:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28And levy a tribute to the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle: one out of every five hundred, both of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the sheep.

    29Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering of the LORD.

    30And from the children of Israel's half, you shall take one out of every fifty, of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the flocks, of all kinds of animals, and give them to the Levites who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

  • Num 3:47-48
    2 verses
    73%

    47You shall take five shekels each by the head, according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

    48And you shall give the money, by which the excess number of them is to be redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.

  • 17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

  • 26A bekah per person, that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who crossed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

  • 72%

    12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

    13This is the offering that you shall offer; a sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give a sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley:

  • 5Take from among you an offering to the LORD: whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and bronze,

  • 72%

    10You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

    11For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

  • Lev 27:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7And if it is from sixty years old and above; if it is a male, then your estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

    8But if he is poorer than your estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

  • Exod 25:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: from every man who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take my offering.

    3And this is the offering you shall take from them; gold, silver, and bronze,

  • 15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

  • Num 18:26-30
    5 verses
    71%

    26Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

    27And this your heave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the corn of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

    28Thus you also shall offer a heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.

    29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

    30Therefore you shall say to them, When you have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.

  • Lev 27:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man makes a special vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by your estimation.

    3And your estimation shall be for the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, your estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

  • 25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • 25And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

  • 21And if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;

  • 50We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.

  • 50From the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money; one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

  • 12According to the number you prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number.

  • 10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God, according to how the LORD your God has blessed you:

  • 16And those that are to be redeemed from a month old you shall redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

  • 35You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measuring yard, in weight, or in measure.

  • 47Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • 6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • 52And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

  • 4For all these have out of their abundance cast into the offerings of God; but she, out of her poverty, has cast in all the living that she had.

  • 14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • 37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • 10And you shall bring as a drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 31:41-42
    2 verses
    69%

    41And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    42And from the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men who went to war,

  • 15You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

  • 4Then he who offers his offering to the LORD shall bring a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil.

  • 7If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

  • 16And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and add one-fifth to it, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.