12 “When you take a census(A) of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom(B) for himself to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague(C) will come on them as they are registered.

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Yet these cannot redeem a person[a]
or pay his ransom to God(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 49:7 Or Certainly he cannot redeem himself, or Yet he cannot redeem a brother

18 The wicked are a ransom for the righteous,
and the treacherous, for[a] the upright.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:18 Or in place of

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