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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 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
shallbe two cubits. Itshorns shallbe 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.
9You 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 ap-point 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 not
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 Youshallmake incense ofit, 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.”
30:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm,
or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. ‡ 30:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. § 30:13 a gerah
is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains † 30:15 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
Word English Bible
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