Exodus 30

¹And you shall make an altar for burning incense; of acacia wood you shall make it.

²A cubit its length, and a cubit its width — it shall be square — and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

³And you shall overlay it with pure gold — its top and its walls around and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold around.

⁴And two rings of gold you shall make for it below its molding on its two sides — you shall make them on its two sides — and they shall be as holders for poles to carry it with.

⁵And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

⁶And you shall place it before the curtain that is over the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

⁷And Aaron shall burn on it incense of spices — morning by morning, when he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

⁸And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it — a continual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

⁹You shall not offer strange incense on it, nor a burnt offering, nor a grain offering; and a drink offering you shall not pour on it.

¹⁰And Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonements, once a year, he shall make atonement on it throughout your generations — it is most holy to the LORD.

¹¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹²When you take a census of the sons of Israel according to their enrollment, each man shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you enroll them, so that there will be no plague among them when you enroll them.

¹³This is what everyone who is enrolled shall give: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary — twenty gerahs to the shekel — a half shekel as an offering to the LORD.

¹⁴Everyone who crosses over to those who are enrolled, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the contribution of the LORD.

¹⁵The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, when giving the contribution of the LORD to make atonement for your lives.

¹⁶You shall take the atonement silver from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, and it shall be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your lives.

¹⁷The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁸You shall make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

¹⁹Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it.

²⁰When they come into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they do not die, or when they approach the altar to minister, to burn a food offering to the LORD.

²¹They shall wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for him and for his offspring throughout their generations.

²²And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:

²³And you yourself take the finest spices: of free-flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty.

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

²⁵And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumer's blend, the work of a perfumer — it shall be a holy anointing oil.

²⁶And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

²⁷and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense;

²⁸and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand.

²⁹And you shall consecrate them, and they shall be most holy; whatever touches them shall become holy.

³⁰And Aaron and his sons you shall anoint, and consecrate them to minister to me as priests.

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

³²On the flesh of a man it shall not be poured, and according to its formula you shall not make anything like it — it is holy; it shall be holy to you all.

³³Anyone who compounds anything like it, or who puts any of it on a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.

³⁴And the LORD said to Moses: Take yourself spices — stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense — in equal parts shall it be.

³⁵You shall make of it incense, a spice blend, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

³⁶You shall beat some of it into fine powder and place some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet you there; it shall be most holy of you all.

³⁷The incense that you make according to its formula you shall not make for yourselves of you all; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

³⁸Anyone who makes any like it to smell it shall be cut off from his people.