Exodus 30
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Exodus 30
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And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. | And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it. |
The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. | A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. |
It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. | And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. |
Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. | And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof; upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it. |
And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. | And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. |
And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. | 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. |
And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. | And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it. |
And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. | And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations. |
No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it. | Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon. |
And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord. | And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah. |
And the Lord said to Moses, | And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered. | When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. |
And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord. | This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. |
Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord. | Every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah. |
The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives. | The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. |
And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives. | And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls. |
And the Lord said to Moses, | And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; | Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. |
That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet; | And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: |
Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord, | when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. |
Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation. | 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. |
And the Lord said to Moses, | Moreover Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, | Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, |
And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: | and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. |
And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil. | And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. |
This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law, | And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, |
And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices, | and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense, |
And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base. | and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof. |
And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy. | And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. |
And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me. | And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. |
And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation. | And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. |
It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy. | Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof: it is holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you. |
Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people. | Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. |
And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights; | And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight; |
And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. | and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure [and] holy: |
And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. | and thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. |
You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord. | And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah. |
Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people. | Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people. |