12 ^u“When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give ^va ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel¹ according to the ^wshekel of the sanctuary (the ^xshekel is twenty gerahs),^{2 y}half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.