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¹ And you shall make an altar, a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.² It shall be a cubit in length and a cubit in width; it shall be square. And its height shall be two cubits, its horns from itself.³ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its walls all around, and its horns. And you shall make a wreath of gold for it all around.⁴ And you shall make two rings of gold for it under its wreath; you shall make its two corners on its two sides; and they shall be housings for poles, to lift them up by it.⁵ And you shall make the poles of acacia wood; and you shall overlay them with gold.⁶ And you shall put it in front of the veil which is beside the ark of the testimony; in front of the mercyseat which is over the testimony, there where I meet you.⁷ And Aaron shall burn incense of perfume on it morning by morning; when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.⁸ And when Aaron sets up the lamps between the evenings he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the face of Jehovah for your generations.⁹ You shall not offer up strange incense on it, and burnt offering and food offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering, to go up on it.¹⁰ And Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in a year; from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement once in the year he shall make atonement on it for your generations; it is most holy to Jehovah.

¹¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,¹² When you lift up the head of the sons of Israel, of those numbered, each one shall give the ransom of his soul to Jehovah when numbering them; and there shall not be a plague among them when numbering them.¹³ They shall give this, everyone passing over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs being a shekel; half a shekel as an offering to Jehovah.¹⁴ Every one passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah.¹⁵ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, to give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.¹⁶ And you shall take the silver of atonement from the sons of Israel and you shall give it to the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and it shall be for the sons of Israel for remembrance before the face of Jehovah, to make atonementfor your souls.

¹⁷ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁸ And you shall make a bronze laver for washing, and its base bronze. And you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar; and you shall put water there.¹⁹ And Aaron and his sons shall wash from it, their hands and their feet;²⁰ as they go into the tabernacle of the congregation they shall wash with water, and shall not die; or as they draw near to the altar to minister, to burn a fire offering to Jehovah.²¹ And they shall wash their hands and their feet, and shall not die. And it shall be a never ending statute to them, to him and to his seed for their generations.

²² And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,²³ And you take spices for yourself, the best, five hundred of pure myrrh, and its half of spicy cinnamon, two hundred and fifty shekels , and two hundred and fifty of aromatic calamus;²⁴ and five hundred of cassia, by the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.²⁵ And you shall make it an oil of holy anointing, ointment compound, the work of a perfumer, an oil of holy anointing it shall be.²⁶ And you shall anoint with it the tabernacle of the congregation and the ark of the testimony,²⁷ and the table and all its vessels and the altar of incense,²⁸ and the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.²⁹ And you shall sanctify them, and they shall become most holy; everything touching them shall become holy.³⁰ And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall consecrate them to minister as priests to Me.³¹ And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil for Me for your generations.³² It shall not be poured on the flesh of man, and you shall not make any like it in its proportion; it is holy. It shall be holy to you.³³ If a man prepares any like it, or who gives from it to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.³⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Take perfumes for yourself, spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices, and pure frankincense, a part shall be for a part.³⁵ And you shall make it incense, an ointment, a work of a perfumer, salted, pure and holy.³⁶ And you shall grind some of it fine, and put some of it in front of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I meet you. It shall be most holy to you.³⁷ And the incense which you make, in its proportion, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.³⁸ If a man makes any like it, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.