Chapter 30
1 "For burning incense you shall make an altar of
acacia wood, 2 with a square surface, a cubit
long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that spring directly from
it. 3 Its grate on top, its walls on all four
sides, and its horns you shall plate with pure gold. Put a gold molding around
it. 4 Underneath the molding you shall put gold
rings, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles
used in carrying it. 5 Make the poles, too, of
acacia wood and plate them with gold. 6 This
altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the
commandments where I will meet you. 7 "On
it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares
the lamps, 8 and again in the evening twilight,
when he lights the lamps, he shall burn incense. Throughout your generations
this shall be the established incense offering before the LORD. 9 On this altar you shall not offer up any profane
incense, or any holocaust or cereal offering; nor shall you pour out a libation
upon it.10 Once a year Aaron shall perform the
atonement rite on its horns. Throughout your generations this atonement is to
be made once a year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. This altar is
most sacred to the LORD."
11 The LORD also said to Moses, 12 "When you take a census of the Israelites who
are to be registered, each one, as he is enrolled, shall give the LORD a
forfeit for his life, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
13 Everyone who enters the registered group must
pay a half-shekel, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, twenty
gerahs to the shekel. This payment of a half-shekel is a contribution to the
LORD. 14 Everyone of twenty years or more who
enters the registered group must give this contribution to the LORD. 15 The rich need not give more, nor shall the poor
give less, than a half-shekel in this contribution to the LORD to pay the
forfeit for their lives. 16 When you receive
this forfeit money from the Israelites, you shall donate it to the service of
the meeting tent, that there it may be the Israelites' reminder before the
LORD, of the forfeit paid for their lives."
17 The LORD said to Moses, 18
"For ablutions you shall make a bronze laver with a bronze base. Place it
between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it. 19 Aaron and his sons shall use it in washing their
hands and feet. 20 When they are about to enter
the meeting tent, they must wash with water, lest they die. Likewise when they
approach the altar in their ministry, to offer an oblation to the LORD, 21 they must wash their hands and feet, lest they die.
This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and his descendants throughout
their generations."
22 The LORD said to Moses, 23
"Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of free-flowing myrrh; half
that amount, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, of fragrant cinnamon; two
hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane; 24 five
hundred shekels of cassia-all according to the standard of the sanctuary
shekel; together with a hin of olive oil; 25 and
blend them into sacred anointing oil, perfumed ointment expertly prepared. 26 With this sacred anointing oil you shall anoint the
meeting tent and the ark of the commandments, 27
the table and all its appurtenances, the lampstand and its appurtenances, the
altar of incense 28 and the altar of holocausts
with all its appurtenances, and the laver with its base. 29 When you have consecrated them, they shall be most
sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred. 30
Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and consecrate as my priests. 31 To the Israelites you shall say: As sacred
anointing oil this shall belong to me throughout your generations. 32 It may not be used in any ordinary anointing of the
body, nor may you make any other oil of a like mixture. It is sacred, and shall
be treated as sacred by you. 33 Whoever prepares
a perfume like this, or whoever puts any of this on a layman, shall be cut off
from his kinsmen."
34 The LORD told Moses, "Take these aromatic
substances: storax and onycha and galbanum, these and pure frankincense in
equal parts; 35 and blend them into incense.
This fragrant powder, expertly prepared, is to be salted and so kept pure and
sacred. 36 Grind some of it into fine dust and
put this before the commandments in the meeting tent where I will meet you. This
incense shall be treated as most sacred by you. 37
You may not make incense of a like mixture for yourselves; you must treat it as
sacred to the LORD. 38 Whoever makes an incense
like this for his own enjoyment of its fragrance, shall be cut off from his
kinsmen."
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