Exod 30
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And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shall you make it.
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A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall
it be; and two cubits shall be its height: its horns shall be of one
piece with it.
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And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round
about, and its horns; and you shall make to it a crown of gold round about.
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And two golden rings shall you make for it under its crown; upon the two ribs
thereof, upon the two sides of it shall you make them; and they shall be for places
for staffs wherewith to bear it.
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And you shall make the staffs of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
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And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the
mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresses
the lamps, he shall burn it.
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And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before
YHWH throughout your generations.
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You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering;
and you shall pour no drink-offering thereon.
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And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood
of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout
your generations: it is most holy to YHWH.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered
of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to YHWH, when you number
them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
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This they shall give, every one that passes over to them that are numbered, half a
shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel
for an offering to YHWH.
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Every one that passes over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward,
shall give the offering of YHWH.
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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,
when they give the offering of YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.
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And you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint
it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children
of Israel before YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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You shall also make a laver of brass, and its base of brass, whereat to wash.
And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put
water therein.
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And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
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when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not;
or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire
to YHWH.
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So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be
a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
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Moreover YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Take you also to you the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and
of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two
hundred and fifty,
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and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a
hin.
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And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of
the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
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And you shall anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,
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and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels,
and the altar of incense,
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and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and the
base thereof.
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And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them shall
be holy.
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And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister
to me in the priest`s office.
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And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing
oil to me throughout your generations.
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Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any like it,
according to its composition: it is holy, [and] it shall be holy to you.
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Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall
be cut off from his people.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum;
sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;
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and you shall make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned
with salt, pure [and] holy:
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and you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the
tent of meeting, where I will meet with you: it shall be to you most holy.
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And the incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall
not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for YHWH.
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Whoever shall make like to that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people.