Exodus 30:12

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“When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

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  • Num 31:50 : 50 So we have brought as an offering for the LORD what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
  • Ps 49:7 : 7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Exod 38:25-26 : 25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel, 26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.
  • Num 1:2-5 : 2 “Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male. 3 You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions. 4 And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family. 5 Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
  • Num 26:2-4 : 2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” 3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said, 4 “Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
  • Mark 10:45 : 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time.
  • 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.
  • 2 Sam 24:1-9 : 1 David Displeases the Lord by Taking a Census The LORD’s anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying,“Go count Israel and Judah.” 2 The king told Joab, the general in command of his army,“Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.” 3 Joab replied to the king,“May the LORD your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?” 4 But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army. 5 They crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, on the south side of the city, at the wadi of Gad, near Jazer. 6 Then they went on to Gilead and to the region of Tahtim Hodshi, coming to Dan Jaan and on around to Sidon. 7 Then they went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba. 8 They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. 9 Joab reported the number of warriors to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers. 10 David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 11 When David got up the next morning, the LORD’s message had already come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer: 12 “Go, tell David,‘This is what the LORD has said: I am offering you three forms of judgment. Pick one of them and I will carry it out against you.’” 13 Gad went to David and told him,“Shall seven years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what I should tell the one who sent me.” 14 David said to Gad,“I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!” 15 So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.
  • 1 Chr 21:12 : 12 three years of famine, or three months being chased by your enemies and struck down by their swords, or three days being struck down by the LORD, during which a plague will invade the land and the LORD’s angel will destroy throughout Israel’s territory.’ Now, decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”
  • 1 Chr 21:14 : 14 So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.
  • 1 Chr 27:24 : 24 Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll called The Annals of King David.
  • 2 Chr 24:6 : 6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him,“Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the LORD’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?”
  • Job 33:24 : 24 and if God is gracious to him and says,‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’
  • Job 36:18 : 18 Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 30:13-16
    4 verses
    78%

    13Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the LORD.

    14Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the LORD.

    15The rich are not to pay more and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.

    16You are to receive the atonement money from the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.”

  • Exod 30:11
    77%

    11The Ransom Money The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 15:12
    76%

    12You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.

  • Num 3:40
    76%

    40The Substitution for the Firstborn Then the LORD said to Moses,“Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

  • Num 26:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1A Second Census Required After the plague the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

    2“Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.”

  • Num 3:42-44
    3 verses
    75%

    42So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

    43And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

    44Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 27:2
    74%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the LORD,

  • Exod 38:26
    74%

    26one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.

  • Num 31:28-30
    3 verses
    74%

    28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

    30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

  • Num 1:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.

    3You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.

  • Num 1:19
    73%

    19just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the desert of Sinai.

  • Num 3:46-50
    5 verses
    73%

    46And for the redemption of the 273 firstborn males of the Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,

    47collect five shekels for each one individually; you are to collect this amount in the currency of the sanctuary shekel(this shekel is twenty gerahs).

    48And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”

    49So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

    50From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  • Num 26:4
    72%

    4“Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”

  • Num 1:48-49
    2 verses
    72%

    48The LORD had said to Moses,

    49“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

  • Num 3:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15“Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.”

    16So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.

  • Num 8:19
    72%

    19I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”

  • Num 31:40
    72%

    40The people were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 people.

  • Num 26:62
    72%

    62Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

  • Num 31:16
    71%

    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

  • Num 31:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    26“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

  • Num 4:30
    71%

    30You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 25:9
    71%

    9Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

  • Num 31:42
    71%

    42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

  • Num 26:64
    71%

    64But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai.

  • Num 31:46-47
    2 verses
    71%

    46and 16,000 people.

    47From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 4:49
    71%

    49According to the word of the LORD they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 16:16
    71%

    16“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

  • Num 2:33
    70%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 1:44
    70%

    44These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.

  • Exod 25:2
    70%

    2“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

  • Num 1:46
    70%

    46And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

  • Num 26:52
    70%

    52Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 15:31
    70%

    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.