Exodus 30
1 And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.
And thou shalt make an altar, for burning incense, of acacia wood, shalt thou make it:
2 The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.
a cubit, the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof four square, shall it be, —and two cubits, the height thereof, of the same, [shall be] the horns thereof,
3 It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof, -and thou shalt make to it a border of gold round about.
4 Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.
And, two rings of gold, shalt thou make to it, under the border thereof upon the two corners thereof, shalt thou make them on the two sides thereof, —so shall they become receptacles for the staves, to lift it therewith.
5 And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, —and overlay them with gold.
6 And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you.
And thou shalt place it before the veil, which is by the ark of the testimony, —before the propitiatory which is upon the testimony, where I will meet thee.
7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
And Aaron shall burn thereon fragrant incense, —morning by morning, when he trimmeth the lamps, shall he burn it;
8 And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.
and, when Aaron lighteth the lamps, between the evenings, shall he burn it, —a continual incense before Yahweh, to your generations.
9 No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.
Ye shall not cause to ascend thereupon strange incense, nor an ascending-sacrifice, nor a meal-offering, —and a drink offering, shall ye not pour out thereupon.
10 And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.
But Aaron shall put a propitiatory-covering upon the horns thereof, once in the year: of the blood of the sin-bearer for propitiatory-coverings, once in the year, shall he put a propitiatory-covering thereupon to your generations, most holy, it is to Yahweh.
11 And the Lord said to Moses,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying—
12 When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.
When thou takest the sum of the sons of Israel, by their numberings, then shall they give every man a propitiatory-covering for his soul to Yahweh, when they are numbered, —that there may be among them no plague when they are numbered.
13 And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs: ) this money is an offering to the Lord.
This, shall they give—every one that passeth over to them that have been numbered—a half-shekel by the shekel of the sanctuary, —the shekel is twenty gerahs—the half-shekel, shall be a heave-offering to Yahweh.
14 Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.
All who pass over to the numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, shall give the heave-offering of Yahweh.
15 The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.
The rich, shall not give more, and the poor, shall not give less, than the half-shekel, —when they give the heave-offering of Yahweh, to put a propitiatory-covering over your souls.
16 And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.
So then thou shalt take the silver for the propitiatory-coverings from the sons of Israel, and shalt expend it upon the service of the tent of meeting, —thus shall it be for the sons of Israel as a memorial before Yahweh, to put a propitiatory-covering over your souls.
17 And the Lord said to Moses,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying—
18 You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;
And thou shalt make a laver of bronze, and its stand of bronze for bathing, —and thou shalt place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put therein water.
19 That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;
So shall Aaron and his sons bathe thereat, —their hands, and their feet.
20 Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,
When they enter the tent of meeting, they shall bathe with water so shall they not die, —or when they approach unto the altar to minister, to burn as incense an altar-flame to Yahweh:
21 Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.
so then they shall bathe their hands and their feet and shall not die, —and it shall be to them an age-abiding statute, to him and to his seed to their generations.
22 And the Lord said to Moses,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying—
23 Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,
Thou, therefore, take to thee—principal spices, —self-flowing myrrh, five hundred, and fragrant cinnamon, half as much, two hundred and fifty, and, fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
24 And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
and, cassia, five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, —and, oil olive, a hin.
25 And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.
And thou shalt make it an oil for holy anointing, a compounded perfume the work of a perfumer, —an oil for holy anointing, shall it be.
26 This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,
And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, —and the ark of the testimony;
27 And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,
and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand, and its utensils, —and the incense altar,
28 And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.
and the altar for the ascending-sacrifice, and all its utensils, -and the laver, and its stand.
29 And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.
So shalt thou hallow them, and they shall be most holy, —whosoever toucheth them, shall be holy.
30 And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.
Aaron also, and his sons, shalt thou anoint, —so shalt thou hallow them to minister as priests unto me.
31 And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.
And unto the sons of Israel, shalt thou speak, saying, An oil for holy anointing, shall this be to me, to your generations.
32 It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.
Upon the flesh of a common man, shall it not be poured, and according to the proportions thereof, shall ye not make any like it, —holy, it is, holy, shall it be to you.
33 Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, and whosoever bestoweth thereof upon a stranger, shall be cut off from among his people.
34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;
Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Take to thee aromatic spices stacte and onycha, and galbanum, —aromatic spices, and pure frankincense, —weight for weight, shall it be.
35 And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.
And thou shalt make of it an incense, a perfume the work of a perfumer, —salted, pure, holy.
36 And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy.
And thou shalt beat some of it to powder, and place thereof before the testimony, in the tent of meeting, where I am to meet with thee, —most holy, shall it be to you.
37 You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.
And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the proportions thereof, ye shall not make for yourselves, —holy, shall it be to thee, to Yahweh.
38 Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.
Whosoever shall make like it, to smell of it shall be cut off from among his people.
