““When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.”
Exodus 30:12
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Connection with Rebekah's gold ring
The Hebrew word beqa (H1235), a beka, appears only twice in the Bible: for the gold ring given to Rebekah (Genesis 24:22), and for the census at Sinai, where every man counted paid "a beka per person" (Exodus 38:26). This law calls that payment "a ransom for his life when he is counted".
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