Exodus 30

1 “And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood;

And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall you make it.

2 a cubit its length and a cubit its breadth (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same.

A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

3 And you have overlaid it with pure gold—its top, and around its sides, and its horns; and you have made a crown of gold for it all around;

And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and you shall make to it a crown of gold round about.

4 and you make two rings of gold for it, under its crown on its two ribs; you make [them] on its two sides, and they have become places for poles to carry it with them.

And two golden rings shall you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, on the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it with.

5 And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold;

And you shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 and you have put it before the veil, which [is] by the Ark of the Testimony, before the propitiatory covering which [is] over the Testimony, where I meet with you.

And you 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 you.

7 And Aaron has made incense on it, incense of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right, he makes incense [on] it,

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.

8 and in Aaron’s causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he makes incense [on] it; [it is] a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations.

And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

9 You do not cause strange incense to go up on it—and burnt-offering and present; and you do not pour out a drink-offering on it;

You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour drink offering thereon.

10 and Aaron has made atonement on its horns once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year he makes atonement for it, throughout your generations; it [is] most holy to YHWH.”

And Aaron shall make an atonement on the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement on it throughout your generations: it is most holy to the LORD.

11 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

12 “When you take up the census of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have each given an atonement [for] his soul to YHWH in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.

When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.

13 This they give, everyone passing over to those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the holy place (the shekel [is] twenty gerahs); half a shekel [is] the raised-offering to YHWH;

This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs: ) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.

14 everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, gives the raised-offering of YHWH;

Every one that passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD.

15 the rich do not multiply, and the poor do not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the raised-offering of YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

16 And you have taken the atonement-money from the sons of Israel, and have given it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; and it has been to the sons of Israel for a memorial before YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.”

And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.

17 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

18 “And you have made a laver of bronze (and its base of bronze), for washing; and you have put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and have put water [in] there,

You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash with: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water therein.

19 and Aaron and his sons have washed their hands and their feet from it;

For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:

20 they wash [with] water in their going into the Tent of Meeting, and do not die; or in their drawing near to the altar to minister, to make incense [as] a fire-offering to YHWH,

When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire to the LORD:

21 then they have washed their hands and their feet, and they do not die, and it has been a continuous statute to them, to him and to his seed, throughout their generations.”

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

22 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

23 “And you, take [these] principal spices for yourself: five hundred [shekels] of liquid myrrh, and the half of that—two hundred and fifty [shekels]—of spice-cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty [shekels] of spice-cane,

Take you also to you principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

24 and five hundred [shekels] of cassia, by the shekel of the holy place, and a hin of olive oil;

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

25 and you have made it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder; it is a holy anointing oil.

And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

26 And with it you have anointed the Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony,

And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,

27 and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense,

And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,

28 and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base;

And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

29 and you have sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 and you anoint Aaron and his sons, and have sanctified them for being priests to Me.

And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

31 And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This is a holy anointing oil to Me, throughout your generations;

And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

32 it is not poured on [the] flesh of man, and you make nothing [else] like it in its proportion; it [is] holy—it is holy to you;

On man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 a man who compounds [any] like it, or who puts of it on a stranger, has even been cut off from his people.”

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

34 And YHWH says to Moses, “Take to yourself spices—stacte, and onycha, and galbanum—spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;

And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

35 and you have made it an incense, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;

And you shall make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

36 and you have beaten [some] of it small, and have put of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, to where I meet with you; it is most holy to you.

And you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you: it shall be to you most holy.

37 As for the incense which you make, you do not make [any] for yourselves in its proportion; it is holy to you for YHWH;

And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.

38 a man who makes [any] like it—to be refreshed by it—has even been cut off from his people.”

Whoever shall make like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.