¹ And you will make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood will you make it. ² A cubit will be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it; foursquare will it be: and two cubits will be the height of it: the horns of it [will be] of the same. ³ And you will overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, and the sides of it round about, and the horns of it; and you will make to it a crown of gold round about. ⁴ And two golden rings will you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners of it, on the two sides of it will you make it; and they will be for places for the staves to bear it withal. ⁵ And you will make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ⁶ And you will 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 you. ⁷ And Aaron will burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he will burn incense on it. ⁸ And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he will burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. ⁹ You will offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither will you pour drink offering thereon. ¹⁰ And Aaron will make an atonement on the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year will he make atonement on it throughout your generations: it is most holy to the LORD. ¹¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² When you takes the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then will they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you numbers them; that there be no plague among them, when you numbers them. ¹³ This they will 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 will be the offering of the LORD. ¹⁴ Every one that passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, will give an offering to the LORD. ¹⁵ The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. ¹⁶ And you will take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and will 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. ¹⁷ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ you will also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and you will put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you will put water in it. ¹⁹ For Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet thereat ²⁰ When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they will 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 ²¹ So they will wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it will be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. ²² Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ Take you also to you 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 a hin ²⁵ And you will make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it will be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶ And you will 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 you will sanctify them, that they may be most holy: anything touches them will be holy. ³⁰ And you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. ³¹ And you will speak to the children of Israel, saying, This will be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. ³² Upon man's flesh will it not be poured, neither will you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it will be holy to you. ³³ Whosoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, will even be cut off from his people. ³⁴ And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each will there be a like [weight] ³⁵ And you will make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy ³⁶ And you will beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you: it will be to you most holy. ³⁷ And as for the perfume which you will make, you will not make to yourselves according to the composition of it: it will be to you holy for the LORD. ³⁸ Whosoever will make like to that, to smell thereto, will even be cut off from his people.