30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it.
30:2 A cubit [shall be] its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits [shall be] its height: its horns [shall be] of the same.
30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides all around, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a crown of gold all around.
30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under its crown, by its two corners, upon its two sides shalt thou make [it]; and they shall be for places for the staffs to bear it with.
30:5 And thou shalt make the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6 And thou shalt put it before the veil that [is] by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at the evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering on it.
30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in a year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it [is] most holy to the LORD.
30:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
30:12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there may be no plague among them, when [thou] numberest them.
30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD.
30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD.
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
30:18 Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and its foot [also of] brass, to wash [in]: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water in it.
30:19 For Aaron and their sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it:
30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire to the LORD:
30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, [even] to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
30:22 Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
30:23 Take thou also to thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half as much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],
30:24 And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil an hin:
30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the perfumer: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation with it, and the ark of the testimony,
30:27 And the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense,
30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its foot.
30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy.
30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they] may minister to me in the priests office.
30:31 And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
30:32 Upon mans flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy to you.
30:33 Whoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
30:34 And the LORD said to Moses, Take to thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight]:
30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the perfumer, tempered together, pure [and] holy:
30:36 And thou shalt beat [some] of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be to you most holy.
30:37 And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to its composition: it shall be to thee holy for the LORD.
30:38 Whoever shall make [any] like it, to smell it, shall even be cut off from his people.