9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor present; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
10 And Aaron shall make reconciliation upon the horns of it once a year with the blood of the reconciliation for sin; once a year shall he make reconciliation upon it throughout your ages; it shall be most holy unto the Lord.
11 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
12 When thou takest the number of the sons of Israel after the sum of them, each one shall give a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou dost number them, that there be no mortality in them because of numbering them.
13 This shall be given by every one that passes among those that are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel shall be the offering to the Lord.
14 Anyone that passes among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the offering unto the Lord.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give the offering unto the Lord to make reconciliation for your souls.