Exodus 30

1 'And thou hast made an altar [for] making perfume; [of] shittim wood thou dost make it;

And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

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

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.

3 '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;

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.

4 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.

Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.

5 'And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;

And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

6 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.

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.

7 'And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it,

And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.

8 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.

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.

9 '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;

No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

10 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.'

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.

11 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

12 '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.

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.

13 '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;

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.

14 every one passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, doth give the heave-offering of Jehovah;

Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

15 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.

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.

16 '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.'

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.

17 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

18 '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;

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;

19 and Aaron and his sons have washed at it their hands and their feet,

That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

20 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,

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,

21 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.'

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.

22 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

23 '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;

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,

24 and cassia five hundred, by the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a hin;

And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:

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

And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

26 'And thou hast anointed with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,

This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,

27 and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of perfume,

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,

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

And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.

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

And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

30 and Aaron and his sons thou dost anoint, and hast sanctified them for being priests to Me.

And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.

31 'And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, A holy anointing oil is this to Me, to your generations;

And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.

32 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;

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.

33 a man who compoundeth [any] like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger — hath even been cut off from his people.'

Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

34 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;

And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;

35 and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.

36 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.

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.

37 'As to the perfume which thou makest, with its proper proportion ye do not make to yourselves, holy it is to thee to Jehovah;

You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

38 a man who maketh [any] like it — to be refreshed by it — hath even been cut off from his people.'

Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.