Chapter 30
1 " You shall make an altar to burn incense on . You shall make it of acacia wood .
2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square , and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it .
3 You shall overlay it with pure gold , its top , its sides around it , and its horns ; and you shall make a gold molding around it .
4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding ; on its two ribs , on its two sides you shall make them ; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it .
5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood , and overlay them with gold .
6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you .
7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning . When he tends the lamps , he shall burn it .
8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening , he shall burn it , a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations .
9 You shall offer no strange incense on it , nor burnt offering , nor meal offering ; and you shall pour no drink offering on it .
10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year ; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations . It is most holy to Yahweh ."
11 Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying ,
12 " When you take a census of the children of Israel , according to those who are counted among them , then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh when you count them , that there be no plague among them when you count them .
13 They shall give this , everyone who passes over to those who are counted , half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary ( the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh .
14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted , from twenty years old and upward , shall give the offering to Yahweh .
15 The rich shall not give more , and the poor shall not give less , than the half shekel , when they give the offering of Yahweh , to make atonement for your souls .
16 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 Yahweh , to make atonement for your souls ."
17 Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying ,
18 " You shall also make a basin of bronze , and its base of bronze , in which to wash . You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar , and you shall put water in it .
19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it .
20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting , they shall wash with water , that they don’t die ; or when they come near to the altar to minister , to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh .
21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet , that they not die . This shall be a statute forever to them , even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations ."
22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying ,
23 "Also take fine spices : of liquid myrrh , five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much , even two hundred and fifty ; and of fragrant cane , two hundred and fifty ;
24 and of cassia five hundred , according to the shekel of the sanctuary ; and a hin of olive oil .
25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil , a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer : it shall be a holy anointing oil .
26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting , the ark of the covenant,
27 the table and all its articles , the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense ,
28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils , and the basin with its base .
29 You shall sanctify them , that they may be most holy . Whatever touches them shall be holy .
30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons , and sanctify them , that they may minister to me in the priest ’s office.
31 You shall speak to the children of Israel , saying , ‘ This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations .
32 It shall not be poured on man ’s flesh , and do not make any like it , according to its composition . It is holy . It shall be holy to you .
33 Whoever compounds any like it , or whoever puts any of it on a stranger , he shall be cut off from his people .’"
34 Yahweh said to Moses , " Take to yourself sweet spices , gum resin, onycha , and galbanum : sweet spices with pure frankincense . There shall be an equal weight of each .
35 You shall make incense of it , a perfume after the art of the perfumer , seasoned with salt , pure and holy .
36 You shall beat some of it very small , and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting , where I will meet with you . It shall be to you most holy .
37 You shall not make this incense , according to its composition , for yourselves : it shall be to you holy for Yahweh .
38 Whoever shall make any like that , to smell of it , he shall be cut off from his people ."