Exodus 30:1-38 LSV

[1] “And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood; [2] 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 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; [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. [5] And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid 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. [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, [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. [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; [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.” [11] And YHWH speaks 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. [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; [14] everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, gives the raised-offering of YHWH; [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. [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.” [17] And YHWH speaks 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, [19] and Aaron and his sons have washed their hands and their feet from it; [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, [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.” [22] And YHWH speaks 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, [24] and five hundred [shekels] of cassia, by the shekel of the holy place, and a hin of olive oil; [25] and you have made it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder; it is a holy anointing oil. [26] And with it you have anointed the Tent of Meeting, 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, [28] and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base; [29] and you have sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy; [30] and you anoint Aaron and his sons, and have sanctified them for being priests to Me. [31] And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This is a 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; [33] a man who compounds [any] like it, or who puts of it on a stranger, has even been 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; [35] and you have made it an incense, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, 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. [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; [38] a man who makes [any] like it—to be refreshed by it—has even been cut off from his people.”