1And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood you shall make it. 2A cubit shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it; square shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height of it: the horns of it shall be of one piece with it. 3And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, and the sides of it around, and the horns of it; and you shall make for it a crown of gold around. 4And two golden rings you shall make for it under the crown of it; upon the two ribs of it, upon the two sides of it you shall make them; and they shall be as places for 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 incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn it. 8And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yehovah throughout your generations. 9You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it. 10And Aaron shall 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 shall make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy to Yehovah. 11And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 12When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered of them, then they shall give every man a ransom for his soul to Yehovah, when you number them; that there may be no plague among them, when you number them. 13This they shall 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 Yehovah. 14Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Yehovah. 15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yehovah, to make atonement for your souls. 16And you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yehovah, to make atonement for your souls. 17And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 18You shall also make a laver of brass, and the base of it of brass, at which to wash. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. 19And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet at it: 20when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yehovah. 21So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. 22Moreover Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 23Take also for yourself the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, 24and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin; 25and you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded according to the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. 26And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, 27and the table and all the vessels of it, and the candlestick and the vessels of it, and the altar of incense, 28and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels of it, and the laver and the base of it. 29And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them shall be holy. 30And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. 31And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. 32Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any like it, according to the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. 33Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. 34And Yehovah said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each there shall be a like weight; 35and you shall make of it incense, a perfume according to the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: 36and you shall 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 shall be to you most holy. 37And the incense which you shall make, according to the composition of it you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yehovah. 38Whoever makes any like it, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.