Exodus 30:1-38 LSB

[1] “Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. [2] Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit; it shall be square. And its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of the same piece. [3] You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it. [4] You shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make them on its two side walls—on opposite sides—and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. [5] You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. [6] You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you. [7] Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. [8] When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be continual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations. [9] You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar or burnt offering or grain offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it. [10] Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.” [11] Yahweh also spoke to Moses, saying, [12] “When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a price of atonement for himself to Yahweh when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. [13] This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to Yahweh. [14] Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to Yahweh. [15] The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel when you give the contribution to Yahweh to make atonement for your souls. [16] And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a remembrance for the sons of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.” [17] And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [18] “You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. [19] And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it; [20] when they come into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire sacrifice to Yahweh. [21] So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his seed throughout their generations.” [22] Moreover, Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [23] “But as for you, take for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh 500 shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250, [24] and of cassia 500, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. [25] And you shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. [26] And with it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, [27] and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, [28] and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. [29] You shall also set them apart as holy, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy. [30] And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall set them apart as holy, that they may minister as priests to Me. [31] And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations. [32] It shall not be poured on anyone’s body, nor shall you make any like it in the same specifications; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. [33] Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.’” [34] Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Take for yourself fragrances, stacte and onycha and galbanum, fragrances with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. [35] With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. [36] You shall beat some of it very fine, and you shall put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. [37] The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same specifications for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for Yahweh. [38] Whoever shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people.”