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15 When this offering is given to the Lord to purify your lives, making you right with him,[a] the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less.

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  1. 30:15 Or to make atonement for your lives; similarly in 30:16.

15 The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less(A) when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.

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50 So we are presenting the items of gold we captured as an offering to the Lord from our share of the plunder—armbands, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces. This will purify our lives before the Lord and make us right with him.[a]

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  1. 31:50 Or will make atonement for our lives before the Lord.

50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves(A) before the Lord.”

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Masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Don’t threaten them; remember, you both have the same Master in heaven, and he has no favorites.

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And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours(A) is in heaven, and there is no favoritism(B) with him.

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19 He doesn’t care how great a person may be,
    and he pays no more attention to the rich than to the poor.
    He made them all.

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19 who shows no partiality(A) to princes
    and does not favor the rich over the poor,(B)
    for they are all the work of his hands?(C)

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11 for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord.[a] It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.

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  1. 17:11 Or to make atonement for you.

11 For the life of a creature is in the blood,(A) and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.[a](B)

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  1. Leviticus 17:11 Or atonement by the life in the blood

12 “Whenever you take a census of the people of Israel, each man who is counted must pay a ransom for himself to the Lord. Then no plague will strike the people as you count them.

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12 “When you take a census(A) of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom(B) for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague(C) will come on them when you number them.

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25 But if you do what is wrong, you will be paid back for the wrong you have done. For God has no favorites.

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25 Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.(A)

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The rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord made them both.

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Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(A)

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David asked them, “What can I do for you? How can I make amends so that you will bless the Lord’s people again?”

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David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the Lord’s inheritance?”(A)

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