¹³ Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel,^[a] according to the sanctuary shekel,^(A) which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ All who cross over, those twenty years old or more,^(B) are to give an offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less^(C) when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives. ¹⁶ Receive the atonement^(D) money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting.^(E) It will be a memorial^(F) for the Israelites before the Lord, making atonement for your lives.”

⁵ From what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze;

²² All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewelry of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the Lord.

²⁹ All the Israelite men and women who were willing^(A) brought to the Lord freewill offerings^(B) for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.

³ Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided^(A) for this holy temple: ⁴ three thousand talents^[a] of gold (gold of Ophir)^(B) and seven thousand talents^[b] of refined silver,^(C) for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, ⁵ for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today?”

⁶ Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials^(D) in charge of the king’s work gave willingly.^{(E) 7} They^(F) gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents^[c] and ten thousand darics^[d] of gold, ten thousand talents^[e] of silver, eighteen thousand talents^[f] of bronze and a hundred thousand talents^[g] of iron. ⁸ Anyone who had precious stones^(G) gave them to the treasury of the temple of the Lord in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.^{(H) 9} The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly^(I) to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.