Exodus 30

30 ‎(1) You shall make an altar for burning incense; make it of acacia wood. ‎(2) It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide—it shall be square—and two cubits high, its horns of one piece with it. ‎(3) Overlay it with pure gold: its top, its sides round about, and its horns; and make a gold molding for it round about. ‎(4) And make two gold rings for it under its molding; make them on its two side walls, on opposite sides. They shall serve as holders for poles with which to carry it. ‎(5) Make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ‎(6) Place it in front of the curtain that is over the Ark of the Pact—in front of the cover that is over the Pact—where I will meet with you. ‎(7) On it Aaron shall burn aromatic incense: he shall burn it every morning when he tends the lamps, ‎(8) and Aaron shall burn it at twilight when he lights the lamps—a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout the ages. ‎(9) You shall not offer alien incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; neither shall you pour a libation on it. ‎(10) Once a year Aaron shall perform purification upon its horns with blood of the sin offering of purification; purification shall be performed upon it once a year throughout the ages. It is most holy to the LORD. ‎(11) the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‎(12) When you take a census of the Israelite men according to their army enrollment, each shall pay the LORD a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. ‎(13) This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight—twenty *gerah*s to the shekel—a half-shekel as an offering to the LORD. ‎(14) Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the LORD’s offering: ‎(15) the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the LORD’s offering as expiation for your persons. ‎(16) You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the LORD, as expiation for your persons. ‎(17) the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‎(18) Make a laver of copper and a stand of copper for it, for washing; and place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Put water in it, ‎(19) and let Aaron and his sons wash their hands and feet [in water drawn] from it. ‎(20) When they enter the Tent of Meeting they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they approach the altar to serve, to turn into smoke an offering by fire to the LORD, ‎(21) they shall wash their hands and feet, that they may not die. It shall be a law for all time for them—for him and his offspring—throughout the ages. ‎(22) the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‎(23) Next take choice spices: five hundred weight of solidified myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of aromatic cane, ‎(24) five hundred—by the sanctuary weight—of cassia, and a *hin* of olive oil. ‎(25) Make of this a sacred anointing oil, a compound of ingredients expertly blended, to serve as sacred anointing oil. ‎(26) With it anoint the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Pact, ‎(27) the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and all its fittings, the altar of incense, ‎(28) the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. ‎(29) Thus you shall consecrate them so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be consecrated. ‎(30) You shall also anoint Aaron and his sons, consecrating them to serve Me as priests. ‎(31) And speak to the Israelite people, as follows: This shall be an anointing oil sacred to Me throughout the ages. ‎(32) It must not be rubbed on any person’s body, and you must not make anything like it in the same proportions; it is sacred, to be held sacred by you. ‎(33) Any party who compounds its like, or puts any of it on a lay person, shall be cut off from kin. ‎(34) And the LORD said to Moses: Take the herbs stacte, onycha, and galbanum—these herbs together with pure frankincense; let there be an equal part of each. ‎(35) Make them into incense, a compound expertly blended, refined, pure, sacred. ‎(36) Beat some of it into powder, and put some before the Pact in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. ‎(37) But when you make this incense, you must not make any in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be held by you sacred to the LORD. ‎(38) Any party who makes any like it, to smell of it, shall be cut off from kin.