Exodus 30

Thomson^{(i) 1} Thou shalt also make an Altar to burn incense thereon. Of incorruptible wood thou shalt make it ² a cubit long and a cubit broad. It shall be square and the height shall be two cubits. The horns shall be a component part of it. ³ And thou shalt overlay with pure gold its grate and its sides round about and the horns thereof. And thou shall make for it a wreathed border of gold round about. ⁴ And thou shalt make two rings of pure gold under its wreathed border for the two corners. Thou shalt make them on the two sides and there shall be clasps for the staves with which it is to be carried. ⁵ And thou shalt make staves of incorruptible wood and overlay them with gold. ⁶ And thou shalt place this before the veil, which is over the ark of the testimonies, from which I will make myself known to thee. ⁷ And Aaron shall burn thereon every morning compound incense beaten fine. When he replenisheth the lamps he shall burn incense thereon. ⁸ And when Aaron lighteth the lamps in the evening he shall burn incense thereon every day continually before the Lord throughout their generations. ⁹ And upon it thou shalt not offer any other incense offering, homage offering, nor cake offering; nor shalt thou pour a libation thereon. ¹⁰ But Aaron shall make an atonement on it; on the horns thereof, once a year. With the blood of the purifying sacrifice he shall purify it throughout their generations. It is a Holy of Holies to the Lord. ¹¹ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹² When thou takest an account of the children of Israel, on being reviewed they shall give every man a ransom for his life to the Lord, so there shall be no destruction among them by the review made of them. ¹³ And this is what every one who passeth review shall give, the half of a didrachm, which is according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli making a didrachm. And this half of a didrachm shall be an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Every one who passeth the review from twenty years old and upwards shall give this offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ He who is rich shall add nothing to it, and he who is poor shall deduct nothing from the half of a didrachm when you give this offering to the Lord to make atonement for your lives. ¹⁶ And thou shalt take the money of this offering from the children of Israel and apply it to the service of the tabernacle of the testimony. And it shall be a memorial before the Lord to make atonement for your lives. ¹⁷ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹⁸ Make a laver of brass with its base of brass for the purpose of washing. And thou shalt place it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, and thou shalt pour water into it. ¹⁹ And out of it Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water. ²⁰ When they go into the tabernacle of the testimony, they shall wash with water. That they may escape death, when they go to the altar to minister as priests and to carry up the whole burnt offerings to the Lord ²¹ they shall wash their hands and their feet with water; and when they go into the tabernacle of the testimony they shall wash with water that they may not die: and this shall be to them a perpetual ordinance; to him and his posterity after him. ²² Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ²³ Thou thyself shalt take spices; the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels: and sweet scented cinnamon half as much; two hundred and fifty shekels; and sweet scented calamus two hundred and fifty shekels; ²⁴ and of iris five hundred shekels, sanctuary weight; and olive oil a hin; ²⁵ and of these thou shalt make an holy ointment, an odoriferous perfume, compounded by the art of an apothecary. ²⁶ It shall be a holy anointing oil and with it thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony and the ark of the tabernacle of the testimony ²⁷ and all the utensils thereof, and the candlestick and all the utensils belonging to it; ²⁸ and the altar of incense; and the altar of whole burnt offerings and all its utensils; and the table and all its utensils and the laver. ²⁹ And thou shalt hallow them, and they shall be holy of holies. Every one who toucheth them shall be hallowed. ³⁰ And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and hallow them to minister to me as priests. ³¹ And thon shalt speak to the children of Israel and say, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations. ³² Upon the flesh of man it must not be poured; nor shall you make any for your selves according to this composition. It shall be holy, and held in veneration by you. ³³ Whoever shall make any like it or give any of it to a stranger, shall be rooted out from among his people. ³⁴ Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Take thee spices; stacte, onycha and sweet scented chalbanum and pellucid frankincense, of each an equal quantity. ³⁵ And of these they shall make compound incense mixed up by the art of an apothecary, a pure holy composition. ³⁶ And thou shalt beat some of it fine, and lay it over against the testimonies in the tabernacle of the testimony, where I shall make myself known to thee. It shall be to you a most holy incense. ³⁷ According to the composition thereof you shall not make any for yourselves. You shall consider it as a holy thing appropriate to the Lord. ³⁸ Whoever shall make any like it to yield a fragrance for himself shall be rooted out from among his people.