12 “Whenever you take the sum of the sons of Israel as a census of them,*+ then they must each give a ransom* for his soul* to Jehovah when* taking a census of them,+ that there may come to be no plague upon them when taking a census of them.+

26 The half shekel* for an individual* was the half of a shekel by the shekel of the holy place, for every man who was passing over to those who were registered from twenty years of age and upward,+ amounting to six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.+

2 “TAKE the sum+ of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel according to their families, according to the house of their fathers, by the number of names, all the males, head by head of them,*