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Positive commandment 171 of 248

To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices)

Rembrandt, Moses with the Ten Commandments (1659), Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Public domain.

Maimonides

To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices), as it is said, “This shall they give, everyone that passeth (among them that are numbered)” (Ex. 30:13).

Exodus 30:13

KJV
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD .
ASV
This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah.
WEB
They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.
JPS
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary—the shekel is twenty gerahs—half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.