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Exodus 30

¹“Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.

²It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high [90] — its horns of one piece with it.

³Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

⁴Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding — two on each of the opposite sides — to hold the poles used to carry it.

⁵Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

⁶Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law — before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law — where I will meet with you.

⁷“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.

⁸He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.

⁹Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.

¹⁰Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering [91] for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”

¹¹Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹²“When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

¹³Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, [92] according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

¹⁴All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.

¹⁵The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.

¹⁶Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.”

¹⁷Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹⁸“Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

¹⁹Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.

²⁰Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the LORD,

²¹they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

²²Then the LORD said to Moses,

²³“Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels [93] of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels [94] of fragrant calamus,

²⁴500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin [95] of olive oil.

²⁵Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil.

²⁶Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,

²⁷the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

²⁸the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.

²⁹You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

³⁰“Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.

³¹Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

³²Do not pour it on anyone else’s body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.

³³Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.’ ”

³⁴Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices — gum resin, onycha and galbanum — and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,

³⁵and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

³⁶Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

³⁷Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.

³⁸Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”