"And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who are more than the number of the Levites,

"you shall take five shekels for each one individually; you shall take [them] in the currency of the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs.

"just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

For [there is] one God and one Mediator between God and men, [the] Man Christ Jesus,

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, [like] silver or gold, from your aimless conduct [received] by tradition from your fathers,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,