Exodus 30:15
Good News Translation
The rich man is not to pay more, nor the poor man less, when they pay this amount for their lives.

New Revised Standard Version
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you bring this offering to the LORD to make atonement for your lives.

New American Bible
The rich need not give more, nor shall the poor give less, than a half-shekel in this contribution to the LORD to pay the ransom for their lives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

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The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

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Job 34:19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.

Ephesians 6:9 And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven. And there is no respect of persons with him.

Colossians 3:25 For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God.

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Exodus 30:12 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Leviticus 17:11 Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

Numbers 31:50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

2 Samuel 21:3 David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you? and what shall be the atonement or you, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

Context
The Atonement Money
14He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price. 15The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.16And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.…
Cross References
Exodus 30:14
He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.

Exodus 30:16
And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.

Exodus 38:26
There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

Ezekiel 45:16
All the people of the land shall be bound to these firstfruits for the prince in Israel.

Exodus 30:14
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