Exodus 30
1 And you shall make the altar of incense of incorruptible wood.
And thou shall make an altar to burn incense upon. Thou shall make it of acacia wood.
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 shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it (it shall be foursquare), and two cubits shall be the height of it. The horns of it shall be of one piece with it.
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 shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, and the sides of it round about, and the horns of it. And thou shall make 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 golden rings thou shall make for it under the crown of it, upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it thou shall make them. And they shall be for places for staves with which to bear it.
5 And you shall make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shall gild them with gold.
And thou shall make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay 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 shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet 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 shall burn in it incense of sweet spices. Every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn 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 when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout 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 shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering. And ye shall pour no drink offering 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 shall make atonement upon the horns of it 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 Jehovah.
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to 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 among them a destruction in the visiting of them.
When thou take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when thou number them, that there be no plague among them when thou number them.
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 shall give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs, ) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah.
14 Every one that passes the survey from twenty years old and upwards shall give the offering to the Lord.
Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the 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 shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the 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 shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.
17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And Jehovah spoke to 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.
Thou shall also make a laver of brass, and the base of it of brass for washing. And thou shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shall put water in it.
19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it.
And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet there.
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.
When 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 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.
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Moreover Jehovah spoke to 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,
Take thou also to thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
24 and of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of 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 shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer. It shall be 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 shall anoint 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 the vessels of it, and the lampstand and the vessels of it, and the altar of incense,
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 with all the vessels of it, and the laver and the base of it.
29 And you shall sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: every one that touches them shall be hallowed.
And thou shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them that they may minister to me as priests.
And thou shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
And thou shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout 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.
Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition of it. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
33 Whosoever shall make it in like manner, and whoever shall give of it to a stranger, shall be destroyed from among his people.
Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be 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 said to Moses, Take to thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each shall there be a like weight.
35 And they shall make with it perfumed incense, tempered with the are of a perfumer, a pure holy work.
And thou shall make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and 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 shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee. It shall be to you most holy.
37 You shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord.
And the incense which thou shall make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the composition of it. It shall be to thee holy for Jehovah.
38 Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as to smell it, shall perish from his people.
Whoever shall make like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.
