Exodus 30
1 And you shall make the altar of incense of incorruptible wood.
'And thou hast made an altar [for] making perfume; [of] shittim wood thou dost make it;
2 And you shall make it a cubit in length, and a cubit in breadth: it shall be square; and the height of it shall be of two cubits, its horns shall be of the same piece.
a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same.
3 And you shall gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and you shall make for it a wreathen border of gold roundabout.
'And thou hast overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou hast made to it a crown of gold round about;
4 And you shall make under its wreathen border two rings of pure gold; you shall make it to the two corners on the two sides, and they shall be bearings for the staves, so as to bear it with them.
and two rings of gold thou dost make to it under its crown; on its two ribs thou dost make [them], on its two sides, and they have become places for staves, to bear it with them.
5 And you shall make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shall gild them with gold.
'And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;
6 And you shall set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to you from thence.
and thou hast put it before the vail, which [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which [is] over the testimony, whither I am met with thee.
7 And Aaron shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whenever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it.
'And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it,
8 And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense-offering always before the Lord for their generations.
and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations.
9 And you shall not offer strange incense upon it, [nor] and offering made by fire, [nor] a sacrifice; and you shall not pour a drink-offering upon it.
'Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;
10 And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.
and Aaron hath made atonement on its horns, once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year doth he make atonement for it, to your generations; it [is] most holy to Jehovah.'
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
12 If you take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be amongst them a destruction in the visiting of them.
'When thou takest up the sum of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have given each an atonement [for] his soul to Jehovah in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.
13 And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli [go to] the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.
'This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel [is] twenty gerahs); half a shekel [is] the heave-offering to Jehovah;
14 Every one that passes the survey from twenty years old and upwards shall give the offering to the Lord.
every one passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, doth give the heave-offering of Jehovah;
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half didrachm in giving the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your souls.
the rich doth not multiply, and the poor doth not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.
16 And you shall take the money of the offering from the children of Israel, and shall give it for the service of the tabernacle of testimony; and it shall be to the children of Israel a memorial before the Lord, to make atonement for your souls.
'And thou hast taken the atonement-money from the sons of Israel, and hast given it for the service of the tent of meeting; and it hath been to the sons of Israel for a memorial before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.'
17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
18 Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, for washing; and you shall put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and you shall pour forth water into it.
'And thou hast made a laver of brass (and its base of brass), for washing; and thou hast put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and hast put water there;
19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it.
and Aaron and his sons have washed at it their hands and their feet,
20 Whenever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness, they shall wash themselves with water, so they shall not die, whenever they advance to the altar to do service and to offer the whole burnt offerings to the Lord.
in their going in unto the tent of meeting they wash [with] water, and die not; or in their drawing nigh unto the altar to minister, to perfume a fire-offering to Jehovah,
21 They shall wash their hands and feet with water, whenever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness; they shall wash themselves with water, that they die not; and it shall be for them a perpetual statute, for him and his posterity after him.
then they have washed their hands and their feet, and they die not, and it hath been to them a statute age-during, to him and to his seed to their generations.'
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
23 Do you also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling calamus,
'And thou, take to thyself principal spices, wild honey five hundred [shekels]; and spice-cinnamon, the half of that, two hundred and fifty; and spice-cane two hundred and fifty;
24 and of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
and cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a hin;
25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment [tempered] by the are of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
and thou hast made it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder; it is a holy anointing oil.
26 And you shall anoint with it the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the tabernacle of witness,
'And thou hast anointed with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,
27 and all its furniture, and the candlestick and all its furniture, and the altar of incense,
and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of perfume,
28 and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.
and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base;
29 And you shall sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: every one that touches them shall be hallowed.
and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them that they may minister to me as priests.
and Aaron and his sons thou dost anoint, and hast sanctified them for being priests to Me.
31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
'And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, A holy anointing oil is this to Me, to your generations;
32 On man's flesh it shall not be poured, and you shall not make [any] for yourselves according to this composition: it is holy, and shall be holiness to you.
on flesh of man it is not poured, and with its proper proportion ye make none like it; it [is] holy; it is holy to you;
33 Whosoever shall make it in like manner, and whoever shall give of it to a stranger, shall be destroyed from amongst his people.
a man who compoundeth [any] like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger — hath even been cut off from his people.'
34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each.
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;
35 And they shall make with it perfumed incense, tempered with the are of a perfumer, a pure holy work.
and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;
36 And of these you shall beat some small, and you shall put it before the testimonies in the tabernacle of testimony, whence I will make myself known to you: it shall be to you a most holy incense.
and thou hast beaten [some] of it small, and hast put of it before the testimony, in the tent of meeting, whither I am met with thee; most holy it is to you.
37 You shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord.
'As to the perfume which thou makest, with its proper proportion ye do not make to yourselves, holy it is to thee to Jehovah;
38 Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as to smell it, shall perish from his people.
a man who maketh [any] like it — to be refreshed by it — hath even been cut off from his people.'
