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30:1  And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shall you make it.
30:2  A cubit shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height of it: its horns shall be of one piece with it.
30:3  And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, and the sides of it round about, and its horns; and you shall make unto it a molding of gold round about.
30:4  And two golden rings shall you make for it under its molding, by its two corners, upon the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be places for the poles with which to bear it.
30:5  And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6  And you shall 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 you.
30:7  And Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning: when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
30:8  And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
30:9  You shall offer no unholy incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor grain offering; neither shall you pour a drink offering on it.
30:10  And Aaron shall make an atonement upon its horns once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
30:11  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:12  When you take the census of the children of Israel for their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
30:13  This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) a half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
30:14  Every one included among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto 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 unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:16  And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of meeting; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
30:17  And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:18  You shall also make a laver of bronze, and its base also of bronze, for washing: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
30:19  For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet there:
30:20  When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, 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 unto the LORD:
30:21  So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.
30:22  Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
30:23  Take also unto you the finest spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet-smelling cane two hundred and fifty shekels,
30:24  And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin:
30:25  And you shall make it an oil of holy anointing, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
30:26  And you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony,
30:27  And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
30:28  And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.
30:29  And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them shall be holy.
30:30  And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
30:31  And you shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
30:32  Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
30:33  Whosoever compounds any like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a foreigner, shall even be cut off from his people.
30:34  And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be the same amount:
30:35  And you shall make it an incense, a compound after the art of the perfumer, mixed together, pure and holy:
30:36  And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of meeting, where I will meet with you: it shall be unto you most holy.
30:37  And as for the incense which you shall make, you shall not make it for yourselves according to the composition of it: it shall be unto you holy for the LORD.
30:38  Whosoever shall make any like that, to smell it, shall even be cut off from his people.