30:1 “Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
30:2 It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high–its horns of one piece with it.
30:3 Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
30:4 Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding–two on opposite sides–to hold the poles used to carry it.
30:5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
30:6 Put the altar in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the Testimony–before the atonement cover that is over the Testimony–where I will meet with you.
30:7 “Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
30:8 He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
30:9 Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the LORD.”
30:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
30:12 “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.
30:13 Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
30:14 All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.
30:15 The 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.
30:16 Receive 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.”
30:17 Then the LORD said to Moses,
30:18 “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.
30:19 Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.
30:20 Whenever 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 an offering made to the LORD by fire,
30:21 they 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.”
30:22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
30:23 “Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
30:24 500 shekels of cassia–all according to the sanctuary shekel–and a hin of olive oil.
30:25 Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil.
30:26 Then use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,
30:27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
30:28 the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
30:29 You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.
30:30 “Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
30:31 Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.
30:32 Do not pour it on men’s bodies and do not make any oil with the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.
30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from his people.’”
30:34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices–gum resin, onycha and galbanum–and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,
30:35 and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.
30:36 Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
30:37 Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.
30:38 Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from his people.”
30:1 And you shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its width, a cubit; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.
30:3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and you shall make a rim of gold around it.
30:4 And you shall make for it two rings of gold under its rim; on its two sides, on its opposite sides, you shall make them; and they shall be as holders for poles with which to carry it.
30:5 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
30:6 And you shall put it before the veil that is over the Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover that is over the Testimony, where I will meet with you.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn on it fragrant incense; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.
30:8 And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.
30:9 You shall not offer any strange incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
30:10 And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of expiation once a year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.
30:11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
30:12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their numbering, every man shall give a ransom for himself to Jehovah when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.
30:13 This they shall give, each one who was enrolled among their numbering, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a heave offering to Jehovah.
30:14 Each one who was enrolled among their numbering, from twenty years old and over, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.
30:15 The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.
30:16 And you shall take the expiation silver from the children of Israel and shall give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.
30:17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
30:18 You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
30:19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it;
30:20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah,
30:21 They shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.
30:22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
30:23 You also take the finest spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,
30:24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
30:25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a fragrant ointment compounded according to the work of a compounder; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
30:26 And with it you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,
30:27 And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
30:29 Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
30:30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them that they may serve Me as priests.
30:31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
30:32 Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any like it, according to its composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
30:33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
30:34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant spices ? stacte and onycha and galbanum ? fragrant spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each;
30:35 And you shall make of it incense, a fragrant compound according to the work of a compounder, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
30:36 And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.
30:37 And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make for yourselves according to its composition; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.
30:38 Whoever shall make any like it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.