13 This is what everyone who is counted must give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half shekel will be the offering to the Lord.
14 Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and above, must give an offering to the Lord.
15 The rich must not give more and the poor must not give less than half a shekel when they give the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.
16 You must take the atonement money of the children of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.
17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 You must also make a basin of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing, and you must put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it.
19 For Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it.