Exodus 30

 

Exodus 30

 

1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall you make it.

 

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.

 

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 for it a crown of gold round about.

 

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 withal.

 

5 And you shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay 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.

 

7 And Light Bringer (Aaron) shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

 

8 And when Light Bringer (Aaron) lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim) throughout your generations.

 

9 You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour drink offering thereon.

 

10 And Light Bringer (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 I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim).

 

11 I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim) spoke unto 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.

 

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:) a half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

 

14 Everyone that passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above shall give an offering unto I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim).

 

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.

 

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.

 

17 And I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim) spoke unto Moses, saying,

 

18 You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water therein.

 

19 For Light Bringer (Aaron) and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet there:

 

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 offerings made by fire to I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim):

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

 

22 Moreover I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim) spoke unto 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,

 

24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil, a hin:

 

25 And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

 

26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, 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,

 

28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

 

29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them shall be holy.

 

30 And you shall anoint Light Bringer (Aaron) and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

 

31 And you shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

 

32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

 

33 Whosoever compounds any like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

 

34 And I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim) said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

 

35 And you shall make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and 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.

 

37 And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make for yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be to you holy for I AM LORD God (Yehovah-Elohyim).

 

38 Whosoever shall make like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.