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1“You shall make an altar to burn incense on . You shall make it of acacia wood .
2Its 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 .[#30:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.]
3You shall overlay it with pure gold , its top , its sides around it , and its horns ; and you shall make a gold moulding around it .
4You shall make two golden rings for it under its moulding; on its two ribs , on its two sides you shall make them ; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it .
5You shall make the poles of acacia wood , and overlay them with gold .
6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you .
7Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning . When he tends the lamps , he shall burn it .
8When Aaron lights the lamps at evening , he shall burn it , a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations .
9You shall offer no strange incense on it , nor burnt offering , nor meal offering ; and you shall pour no drink offering on it .
10Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year ; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations . It is most holy to the LORD .”
11The LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
12“When you take a census of the children of Israel , according to those who are counted amongst them , then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you count them , that there be no plague amongst them when you count them .
13They 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 .[#30:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.; #30:13 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains]
14Everyone who passes over to those who are counted , from twenty years old and upward , shall give the offering to the LORD .
15The rich shall not give more , and the poor shall not give less , than the half shekel , when they give the offering of the LORD , to make atonement for your souls .[#30:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.]
16You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel , and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting ; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD , to make atonement for your souls .”
17The LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
18“You shall also make a basin of bronze , and its base of bronze , in which to wash . You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar , and you shall put water in it .
19Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it .
20When they go into the Tent of Meeting , they shall wash with water , that they not die ; or when they come near to the altar to minister , to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD .
21So they shall wash their hands and their feet , that they not die . This shall be a statute forever to them , even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations .”
22Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
23“Also take fine spices : of liquid myrrh , five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much , even two hundred and fifty ; and of fragrant cane , two hundred and fifty ;[#30:23 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds.]
24and of cassia five hundred , according to the shekel of the sanctuary ; and a hin of olive oil .[#30:24 A hin is about 6.5 litres or 1.7 gallons.]
25You shall make it into a holy anointing oil , a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer : it shall be a holy anointing oil .
26You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting , the ark of the covenant,
27the table and all its articles , the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense ,
28the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils , and the basin with its base .
29You shall sanctify them , that they may be most holy . Whatever touches them shall be holy .
30You shall anoint Aaron and his sons , and sanctify them , that they may minister to me in the priest ’s office.
31You shall speak to the children of Israel , saying , ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations .
32It shall not be poured on man ’s flesh , and do not make any like it , according to its composition . It is holy . It shall be holy to you .
33Whoever compounds any like it , or whoever puts any of it on a stranger , he shall be cut off from his people .’”
34The LORD said to Moses , “Take to yourself sweet spices , gum resin, onycha , and galbanum : sweet spices with pure frankincense . There shall be an equal weight of each .
35You shall make incense of it , a perfume after the art of the perfumer , seasoned with salt , pure and holy .
36You shall beat some of it very small , and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting , where I will meet with you . It shall be to you most holy .
37You shall not make this incense , according to its composition , for yourselves : it shall be to you holy for the LORD .
38Whoever shall make any like that , to smell of it , he shall be cut off from his people .”