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| 30:1 |
"Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
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| 30:2 |
"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.
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| 30:3 |
"And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.
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| 30:4 |
"And you shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make [them] on its two side walls-- on opposite sides-- and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.
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| 30:5 |
"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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| 30:6 |
"And you shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over [the ark of] the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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| 30:7 |
"And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps.
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| 30:8 |
"And when Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. [There shall be] perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
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| 30:9 |
"You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a libation on it.
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| 30:10 |
"And Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD."
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| 30:11 |
The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying,
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| 30:12 |
"When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.
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| 30:13 |
"This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD.
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| 30:14 |
"Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the LORD.
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| 30:15 |
"The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.
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| 30:16 |
"And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel, and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves."
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| 30:17 |
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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| 30:18 |
"You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
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| 30:19 |
"And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it;
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| 30:20 |
when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire [sacrifice] to the LORD.
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| 30:21 |
"So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations."
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| 30:22 |
Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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| 30:23 |
"Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,
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| 30:24 |
and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.
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| 30:25 |
"And you shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
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| 30:26 |
"And with it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
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| 30:27 |
and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
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| 30:28 |
and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.
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| 30:29 |
"You shall also consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
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| 30:30 |
"And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister as priests to Me.
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| 30:31 |
"And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
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| 30:32 |
'It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make [any] like it, in the same proportions; it is holy, [and] it shall be holy to you.
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| 30:33 |
'Whoever shall mix [any] like it, or whoever puts any of it on a layman, shall be cut off from his people.'"
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| 30:34 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.
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| 30:35 |
"And with it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, [and] holy.
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| 30:36 |
"And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I shall meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
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| 30:37 |
"And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.
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| 30:38 |
"Whoever shall make [any] like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."
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