Exodus 30
1 And you shall make the altar of incense of incorruptible wood.
And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.
2 And you shall make it a cubit in length, and a cubit in breadth: it shall be square; and the height of it shall be of two cubits, its horns shall be of the same piece.
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 you shall gild its grate with pure gold, and its sides round about, and its horns; and you shall make for it a wreathen border of gold roundabout.
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 you shall make under its wreathen border two rings of pure gold; you shall make it to the two corners on the two sides, and they shall be bearings for the staves, so as 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 you shall make the staves of incorruptible wood, and shall gild them with gold.
And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
6 And you shall set it before the veil that is over the ark of the testimonies, wherein I will make myself known to you from thence.
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 shall burn upon it fine compound incense every morning; whenever he trims the lamps he shall burn incense upon it.
And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
8 And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense-offering always before the Lord for their 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 And you shall not offer strange incense upon it, [nor] and offering made by fire, [nor] a sacrifice; and you shall not pour a drink-offering upon it.
No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.
10 And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.
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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
12 If you take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.
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 And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli [go to] the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.
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 that passes the survey from twenty years old and upwards shall give the offering to the Lord.
Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half didrachm in giving the offering to the Lord, 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 you shall take the money of the offering from the children of Israel, and shall give it for the service of the tabernacle of testimony; and it shall be to the children of Israel a memorial before the Lord, 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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
18 Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, for washing; and you shall put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and you shall pour forth water into it.
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 shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it.
That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;
20 Whenever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness, they shall wash themselves with water, so they shall not die, whenever they advance to the altar to do service and to offer the whole burnt offerings to the Lord.
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 They shall wash their hands and feet with water, whenever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness; they shall wash themselves with water, that they die not; and it shall be for them a perpetual statute, for him and his posterity after him.
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 the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
23 Do you also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet smelling calamus,
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 of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment [tempered] by the are of the perfumer: it shall be 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 you shall anoint with it the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of the tabernacle of witness,
This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,
27 and all its furniture, and the candlestick and all its furniture, and the altar of incense,
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 whole burnt offerings and all its furniture, and the table and all its furniture, and the laver.
And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.
29 And you shall sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: every one that touches them shall be hallowed.
And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them that they may minister to me as priests.
And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.
31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.
32 On man's flesh it shall not be poured, and you shall not make [any] for yourselves according to this composition: it is holy, and shall be holiness 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 Whosoever shall make it in like manner, and whoever shall give of it to a stranger, shall be destroyed from among 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 the Lord said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each.
And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;
35 And they shall make with it perfumed incense, tempered with the are of a perfumer, a pure holy work.
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 of these you shall beat some small, and you shall put it before the testimonies in the tabernacle of testimony, whence I will make myself known to you: it shall be to you a most holy incense.
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 You shall not make any for yourselves according to this composition; it shall be to you a holy thing for the Lord.
You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.
38 Whosoever shall make any in like manner, so as to smell it, shall perish from his people.
Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.
