MLV(i)
1 And you will make an altar to burn incense upon. You will make it of acacia wood.
2 A cubit will be the length of it and a cubit the breadth of it (it will be square) and two cubits will be the height of it. The horns of it will be of one piece with it.
3 And you will overlay it with pure gold, the top of it and the sides of it all around and the horns of it. And you will make to it a crown of gold all around.
4 And two golden rings you will make for it under the crown of it, upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it you will make them. And they will be for places for staves with which to bear it.
5 And you will make the staves of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 And you will 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.
7 And Aaron will burn in it incense of sweet spices. Every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he will burn it. 8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he will burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your* genealogy. 9 You* will offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering. And you* will pour no drink offering on it. 10 And Aaron will make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year, with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. Once in the year he will make atonement for it throughout your* genealogy. It is most holy to Jehovah.
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12 When you take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they will give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, that there is no plague among them when you number them. 13 This they will give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, will give the offering of Jehovah. 15 The rich will not give more and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls. 16 And you will take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and will appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls.
17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18 You will also make a large-basin of brass and the base of it from brass for washing. And you will put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and you will put water in it. 19 And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet there. 20 When they go into the tent of meeting, they will wash with water, that they not die, or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 21 So they will wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And it will be an everlasting statute to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their genealogy.
22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23 You take also to you the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty and of sweet cane two hundred and fifty, 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary and of olive oil a hin. 25 And you will make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil. 26 And you will anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, 27 and the table and all the vessels of it and the lamp-stand and the vessels of it and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels of it and the large-basin and the base of it. 29 And you will sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy. 30 And you will anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
31 And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This will be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your* genealogy. 32 Upon the flesh of man it will not be poured, neither will you* make any like it, according to the composition of it. It is holy and it will be holy to you*. 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he will be cut off from his people.
34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each there will be a like weight. 35 And you will make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. 36 And you will beat some of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It will be to you* most holy. 37 And the incense which you will make, you* will not make for yourselves according to the composition of it. It will be to you holy for Jehovah. 38 Whoever will make like that, to smell of it, he will be cut off from his people.
7 And Aaron will burn in it incense of sweet spices. Every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he will burn it. 8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he will burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your* genealogy. 9 You* will offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering. And you* will pour no drink offering on it. 10 And Aaron will make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year, with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. Once in the year he will make atonement for it throughout your* genealogy. It is most holy to Jehovah.
11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12 When you take the sum of the sons of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they will give every man a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, that there is no plague among them when you number them. 13 This they will give, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary, (the shekel is twenty gerahs,) half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah. 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, will give the offering of Jehovah. 15 The rich will not give more and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls. 16 And you will take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and will appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your* souls.
17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18 You will also make a large-basin of brass and the base of it from brass for washing. And you will put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and you will put water in it. 19 And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet there. 20 When they go into the tent of meeting, they will wash with water, that they not die, or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Jehovah. 21 So they will wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. And it will be an everlasting statute to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their genealogy.
22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23 You take also to you the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty and of sweet cane two hundred and fifty, 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary and of olive oil a hin. 25 And you will make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil. 26 And you will anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, 27 and the table and all the vessels of it and the lamp-stand and the vessels of it and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels of it and the large-basin and the base of it. 29 And you will sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will be holy. 30 And you will anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
31 And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This will be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your* genealogy. 32 Upon the flesh of man it will not be poured, neither will you* make any like it, according to the composition of it. It is holy and it will be holy to you*. 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he will be cut off from his people.
34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each there will be a like weight. 35 And you will make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. 36 And you will beat some of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It will be to you* most holy. 37 And the incense which you will make, you* will not make for yourselves according to the composition of it. It will be to you holy for Jehovah. 38 Whoever will make like that, to smell of it, he will be cut off from his people.