30:1 "Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. |
30:2 "Its length {shall be} a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height {shall be} two cubits; its horns {shall be} of one piece with it. |
30:3 "You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it. |
30:4 "You shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make {them} on its two side walls--on opposite sides--and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. |
30:5 "You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. |
30:6 "You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over {the ark of} the testimony, where I will meet with you. |
30:7 "Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. |
30:8 "When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. {There shall be} perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. |
30:9 "You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it. |
30:10 "Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD." |
30:11 The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying, |
30:12 "When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. |
30:13 "This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD. |
30:14 "Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the LORD. |
30:15 "The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves. |
30:16 "You shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves." |
30:17 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
30:18 "You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. |
30:19 "Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it; |
30:20 when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire {sacrifice} to the LORD. |
30:21 "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations." |
30:22 Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
30:23 "Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred {shekels,} and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty, |
30:24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. |
30:25 "You shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. |
30:26 "With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, |
30:27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, |
30:28 and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. |
30:29 "You shall also consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy. |
30:30 "You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister as priests to Me. |
30:31 "You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, `This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations. |
30:32 `It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make {any} like it in the same proportions; it is holy, {and} it shall be holy to you. |
30:33 `Whoever shall mix {any} like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'" |
30:34 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. |
30:35 "With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, {and} holy. |
30:36 "You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. |
30:37 "The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD. |
30:38 "Whoever shall make {any} like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people." |