Exodus 30
1 “Make an altar for burning incense; make it of acacia wood.
2 It shall be one cubit long and one cubit wide—square—and two cubits high. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
3 Overlay its top, its sides all around, and its horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
4 Make two gold rings for it beneath the molding, on its two sides; make them on both sides, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry it.
5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 Place it in front of the curtain beside the Ark of the Testimony, in front of the atonement cover over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
7 Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it each morning when he tends the lamps.
8 When Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it. It shall be incense continually before the LORD throughout your generations.
9 Do not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering or grain offering; do not pour a drink offering on it.
10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. With the blood of the atoning sin offering, once a year, he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”
11 The LORD spoke to Moses:
12 “When you take a census of the Israelites, each one must give the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted, so that no plague may come upon them when they are counted.
13 Everyone who is counted shall give this: half a shekel, by the sanctuary shekel—the shekel is twenty gerahs—a half shekel as an offering to the LORD.”
14 Everyone twenty years old or older who is counted shall give the LORD’s offering.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when giving the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives.
16 Take the atonement silver from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the tent of meeting. It shall be a reminder for the Israelites before the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.”
17 The LORD spoke to Moses:
18 “Make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet with water from it.
20 When they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they do not die. They shall also wash when they approach the altar to minister, to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
21 They shall wash their hands and feet so that they do not die. This shall be a lasting statute for them—for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations.”
22 The LORD spoke to Moses:
23 “And you, take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty shekels—of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane,
24 five hundred shekels of cassia, by the sanctuary shekel, and one hin of olive oil.
25 Make from these a sacred anointing oil, a blended perfume, the work of a perfumer. It shall be sacred anointing oil.
26 “With it anoint the tent of meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,
27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the incense altar,
28 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
29 Consecrate them, and they shall be most holy; whatever touches them shall become holy.
30 Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests.
31 And say to the Israelites, ‘This shall be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.
32 It shall not be poured on a human body, and you shall not make another like it with the same composition. It is sacred, and it shall be sacred to you.
33 Whoever blends a perfume like it or puts any of it on an unauthorized person shall be cut off from his people.’”
34 The LORD said to Moses: “Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum—fragrant spices with pure frankincense, in equal parts.
35 Make them into incense, a blended perfume, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and sacred.
36 Grind some of it into fine powder and place some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
37 You shall not make incense for your own use with this same composition. It shall be sacred to you, set apart for the LORD.
38 Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
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