Exodus 30:12

When counting Israel, each man must give a ransom for his life to avoid a plague. Even being numbered among God's people required atonement.

Cross-references · 16

• Num 31:50We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
• 1 Pet 1:18–19knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• 1 Chr 27:24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
• Exod 38:25–26The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
• Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Ps 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
• Job 33:24then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
• Num 26:2–4“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
• 2 Chr 24:6The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
• 1 Chr 21:14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
• 2 Sam 24:1–15Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
• Num 1:2–5“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;
• 1 Chr 21:12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
• Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• Job 36:18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

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