King James VersionExodus30

Exodus

1 And thou shalt make an al­tar to burn in­cense up­on: of shit­tim wood shalt thou make it. 2 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 the same. 3 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. 4 And two gold­en rings shalt thou make to it un­der the crown of it, by the two cor­ners there­of, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it with­al. 5 And thou shalt make the staves of shit­tim wood, and over­lay them with gold. 6 And thou shalt put it be­fore the vail that is by the ark of the tes­ti­mo­ny, be­fore the mer­cy seat that is over the tes­ti­mo­ny, where I will meet with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn there­on sweet in­cense ev­ery morn­ing: when he dres­seth the lamps, he shall burn in­cense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn in­cense upon it, a per­pet­u­al in­cense be­fore the LORD through­out your gen­er­a­tions. 9 Ye shall of­fer no strange in­cense there­on, nor burnt sac­ri­fice, nor meat of­fer­ing; nei­ther shall ye pour drink of­fer­ing there­on. 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 the year shall he make atone­ment upon it through­out your gen­er­a­tions: it is most holy unto the LORD. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 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 unto the LORD, when thou num­ber­est them; that there be no plague among them, when thou num­ber­est them. 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. 14 Ev­ery one that pas­seth among them that are num­bered, from twen­ty years old and above, shall give an of­fer­ing unto the LORD. 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. 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 unto the chil­dren of Is­rael be­fore the LORD, to make an atone­ment for your souls. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot al­so of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it be­tween the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion and the al­tar, and thou shalt put wa­ter there­in. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet there­at: 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 unto the LORD: 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. 22 More­over the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 23 Take thou also unto thee prin­ci­pal spices, of pure myrrh five hun­dred shekels, and of sweet cin­na­mon half so much, even two hun­dred and fifty shekels, and of sweet cala­mus two hun­dred and fifty shekels, 24 And of cas­sia five hun­dred shekels, af­ter the shekel of the sanc­tu­ary, and of oil olive an hin: 25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy oint­ment, an oint­ment com­pound af­ter the art of the apothe­cary: it shall be an holy anoint­ing oil. 26 And thou shalt anoint the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion there­with, and the ark of the tes­ti­mo­ny, 27 And the table and all his ves­sels, and the can­dle­stick and his ves­sels, and the al­tar of in­cense, 28 And the al­tar of burnt of­fer­ing with all his ves­sels, and the laver and his foot. 29 And thou shalt sanc­ti­fy them, that they may be most holy: what­so­ev­er toucheth them shall be holy. 30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and con­se­crate them, that they may min­is­ter unto me in the priest's of­fice. 31 And thou shalt speak unto the chil­dren of Is­rael, say­ing, This shall be an holy anoint­ing oil unto me through­out your gen­er­a­tions. 32 Upon man's 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 unto you. 33 Whoso­ev­er com­poundeth any like it, or whoso­ev­er put­teth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his peo­ple. 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and ony­cha, and gal­banum; these sweet spices with pure frank­in­cense: of each shall there be a like weight: 35 And thou shalt make it a per­fume, a con­fec­tion af­ter the art of the apothe­cary, tem­pered to­geth­er, pure and holy: 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 unto you most holy. 37 And as for the per­fume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to your­selves ac­cord­ing to the com­po­si­tion there­of: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. 38 Whoso­ev­er shall make like unto that, to smell there­to, shall even be cut off from his peo­ple.