9. You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor an oblation, nor a victim; neither shall you offer libations.
10. And Aaron shall pray over its horns once a year, with the blood of what was offered for sin. And he shall make atonement over it in your generations. It shall be the Holy of holies to the Lord."
11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12. "When you have taken the sum of the sons of Israel, according to their number, each shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there will be no scourge among them, when they will be reviewed.
13. Then all those who pass shall give by name: one half shekel, according to the measure at the temple. A shekel has twenty obols. The half part of a shekel shall be offered to the Lord.
14. He who has been numbered from twenty years and above shall give the price.
15. The rich shall not add to the half shekel, and the poor shall diminish nothing.