Exodus 30
1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shall you make it.
“And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood;
2 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.
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 shall overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and you shall make unto it a crown of gold round about.
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 two golden rings shall you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it likewise.
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 shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold;
6 And you shall put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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 shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
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 when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
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 All of you shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor food offering; neither shall all of you pour drink offering thereon.
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 shall make an atonement upon 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 upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
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 the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
“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 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.
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 Every one that passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, gives the raised-offering of YHWH;
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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 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 unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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 the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
18 You shall also make a vessel that holds water of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash likewise: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water therein.
“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 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
and Aaron and his sons have washed their hands and their feet from it;
20 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 unto the LORD:
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 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.
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 Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
23 Take you also unto 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,
“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 of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
and five hundred [shekels] of cassia, by the shekel of the holy place, and a hin of olive oil;
25 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.
and you have made it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder; it is a holy anointing oil.
26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
And with it you have anointed the Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony,
27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
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 with all his vessels, and the vessel that holds water and his foot.
and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base;
29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them shall be holy.
and you have sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
and you anoint Aaron and his sons, and have sanctified them for being priests to Me.
31 And you shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This is a holy anointing oil to Me, throughout your generations;
32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall all of you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
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 Whosoever compounds any like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
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 the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
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 shall make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
and you have made it an incense, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;
36 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 unto you most holy.
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 And as for the perfume which you shall make, all of you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto you holy for the LORD.
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 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
a man who makes [any] like it—to be refreshed by it—has even been cut off from his people.”
