Exodus 30:1-36 ▼

1 “ And you shall make an altar to burn incense. Of acacia wood you shall make it.

2 A cubit its length, and a cubit its width. It shall be square, and two cubits its height. from it its horns shall be.

3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.

4 And you shall make two gold rings for it, under its molding, on two of its sides. You shall place them on both of its flanks, and they will be as holders for poles, to carry it with them.

5 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold.

6 And you shall put it before the face of the veil that is over the ark of the Testimony, before the face of the mercy seat that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you there.

7 And Aaron shall burn on it incense of spices morning by morning; when he makes good the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.

8 And when Aaron lifts up the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn incense continually before the face of YHWH throughout your? generations.

9 You? shall not lift up strange incense on it, and a burnt offering, and a grain offering; and a drink offering you? shall not pour on it.

10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonements; once in the year he shall make atonement upon it. Throughout your? generations it is holy of holies to YHWH.”

11 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “When you take up the census of the sons of Israel for their number, then they shall give each man a ransom for his soul to YHWH when numbering them, and there shall not be a plague among them when numbering them.

13 This they shall give—everyone passing over among those who are numbered—a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (twenty gerahs is the shekel). The half shekel is a contribution to YHWH.

14 Everyone passing over among those who are numbered, from a son of twenty years and above, shall give a contribution of YHWH.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, to give a contribution of YHWH to make atonement upon your? souls.

16 And you shall take the silver of the atonements from the sons of Israel, and you shall give it to the service of the Tent of Meeting, and it shall be for the sons of Israel, for a memorial before the face of YHWH, to make atonement upon your? souls.”

17 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

18 “And you shall make a basin of bronze, and its stand of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and between the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash from it their hands and their feet.

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting they shall wash with water, and they shall not die; or when they draw near to the altar to minister, to burn a fire offering to YHWH.

21 And they shall wash their hands and their feet, and they shall not die; and it shall be to them a statute forever, to him and to his seed throughout their generations.”

22 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

23 “And you, take for yourself the finest myrrh: five hundred shekels of liquid spices; and half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon, two hundred and fifty shekels; and sweet-smelling cane, two hundred and fifty shekels;

24 and cassia, five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and olive oil, a hin.

25 And you shall make it holy anointing oil, a compounded ointment, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 And you shall anoint with it the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,

27 and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense,

28 and the altar of the burnt offering and all its vessels, and the basin and its stand.

29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be holy of holies. Anything that touches them shall be holy.

30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them to minister as priests to Me.

31 And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘A holy anointing oil this is to Me throughout your? generations.

32 On the flesh of man it shall not be poured, and with its proportion you? shall make no other like it. It is holy; it shall be holy to you?.

33 A man who compounds like it, and whoever puts from it on an outsider, he shall be cut off from his people.’”

34 And YHWH said to Moses, “Take unto you spices—gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum—spices and pure frankincense; there shall be part for part.

35 And you shall make it incense, a compound, the work of a perfumer; salted, pure, and holy.

36 And you shall grind some of it very fine and put some of it before the face of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you there. It shall be holy of holies to you?.