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Exodus 30:1 (show verse)

"And you will make an altar [for] burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood,

Exodus 30:2 (show verse)

a cubit its length and a cubit its width--it will be square--and two cubits its height, its horns {of one piece with it}.

Exodus 30:3 (show verse)

And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around.

Exodus 30:4 (show verse)

And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding {on two opposite sides} you will make [them] as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.

Exodus 30:5 (show verse)

You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them [with] gold.

Exodus 30:6 (show verse)

And you will put it before the curtain that [is] upon the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover, which [is] on the testimony, there where I will meet with you.

Exodus 30:7 (show verse)

"And on it Aaron will turn fragrant incense into smoke; {each morning} when he tends the lamps, he will turn it into smoke.

Exodus 30:8 (show verse)

And when Aaron sets up the lamps {at twilight}, he will turn it into smoke--incense of continuity--before Yahweh throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:9 (show verse)

You will not offer on it strange incense or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you will not pour a libation on it.

Exodus 30:10 (show verse)

And Aaron will make atonement on its horns one time in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement; one time in the year he will make atonement on it throughout your generations; it is a most holy thing for Yahweh."

Exodus 30:11 (show verse)

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:12 (show verse)

"{When you take a census of} the {Israelites} to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them.

Exodus 30:13 (show verse)

This they will give, {everyone who is counted}, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, [which is] twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel [is] a contribution for Yahweh.

Exodus 30:14 (show verse)

{Everyone who is counted} from {twenty years old} and above will give the contribution of Yahweh.

Exodus 30:15 (show verse)

The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than the half shekel to give the contribution of Yahweh to make atonement for their lives.

Exodus 30:16 (show verse)

And you will take the atonement money from the {Israelites} and give it to the service of the tent of assembly, and it will be as a memorial for the {Israelites} before Yahweh to make atonement for your lives."

Exodus 30:17 (show verse)

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Exodus 30:18 (show verse)

"And you will make a basin of bronze and its bronze stand for washing, and you will put it between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water there.

Exodus 30:19 (show verse)

And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet with it.

Exodus 30:20 (show verse)

When they come to the tent of assembly, they will wash with water so that they do not die, or when they approach the altar to serve by turning to smoke an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Exodus 30:21 (show verse)

And they will wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die, and it will be a lasting rule for them--to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.

Exodus 30:22 (show verse)

And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:23 (show verse)

"And take for yourself top quality balsam oils, five hundred [shekels of] flowing myrrh, half [as much]--two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant reed,

Exodus 30:24 (show verse)

and five hundred [shekels of] cassia, according to the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil.

Exodus 30:25 (show verse)

And you will make it [into] holy anointing oil, a spice blend of a fragrant ointment [the] work of a perfumer; it will be holy anointing oil.

Exodus 30:26 (show verse)

And you will anoint with it the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony,

Exodus 30:27 (show verse)

and the table and all its equipment and the lampstand and its equipment and the incense altar,

Exodus 30:28 (show verse)

and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment and the basin and its stand.

Exodus 30:29 (show verse)

And you will consecrate them, and they will be most holy things; {anyone who} touches them will be holy.

Exodus 30:30 (show verse)

And you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and you will consecrate them to serve as priests for me.

Exodus 30:31 (show verse)

"And you will speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:32 (show verse)

It will not be poured on human flesh, and with its measurements you will not make [any] like it; it is holy; it will be holy to you.

Exodus 30:33 (show verse)

Anyone who compounds perfume like it and who puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.'"

Exodus 30:34 (show verse)

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Take for yourself fragrant perfumes--stacte resin and onycha and galbanum--fragrant perfumes and pure frankincense, {an equal part of each},

Exodus 30:35 (show verse)

and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

Exodus 30:36 (show verse)

And you will grind part of it to powder, and you will put part of it before the testimony in the tent of assembly where I will meet with you; it will be a most holy thing to you.

Exodus 30:37 (show verse)

And the incense that you will make with its measurements you will not make for yourselves; it will be holy to you for Yahweh.

Exodus 30:38 (show verse)

Anyone who makes [any] like it to smell it will be cut off from his people."