The Altar of Incense

1And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shall you make it.

2A 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.

3And 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.

4And 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.

5And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

6And 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.

7And Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning: when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

8And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

9You shall offer no unholy incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor grain offering; neither shall you pour a drink offering on it.

10And 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.

The Atonement Money

11And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

12When 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.

13This 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.

14Every one included among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.

15The 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.

16And 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.

The Laver

17And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

18You 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.

19For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet there:

20When 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:

21So 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.

The Annointing Oil

22Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

23Take 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,

24And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin:

25And 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.

26And you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony,

27And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

28And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.

29And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them shall be holy.

30And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

31And you shall speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

32Upon 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.

33Whosoever compounds any like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a foreigner, shall even be cut off from his people.

The Incense

34And 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:

35And you shall make it an incense, a compound after the art of the perfumer, mixed together, pure and holy:

36And 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.

37And 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.

38Whosoever shall make any like that, to smell it, shall even be cut off from his people.