1 A nd you shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood you shall make it.

“You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

2 A cubit shall be its length and a cubit its breadth; its top shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 A nd you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns, and you shall make a crown (a rim or molding) of gold around it.

You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

4 Y ou shall make two golden rings under the rim of it, on the two ribs on the two opposite sides of it; and they shall be holders for the poles with which to carry it.

You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

5 A nd you shall make the poles of acacia wood, overlaid with gold.

You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 Y ou shall put the altar in front and outside of the veil that screens the ark of the Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony (the Law, the tables of stone), where I will meet with you.

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.

7 A nd Aaron shall burn on it incense of sweet spices; every morning when he trims and fills the lamps he shall burn it.

Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

8 A nd when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

9 Y ou shall offer no unholy incense on the altar nor burnt sacrifice nor cereal offering; and you shall pour no libation (drink offering) on it.

You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

10 A aron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement upon and for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns 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 Yahweh.”

11 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 W hen you take the census of the Israelites, every man shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord when you number them, that no plague may fall upon them when you number them.

“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

13 T his is what everyone shall give as he joins those already numbered: a half shekel, in terms of the sanctuary shekel, a shekel being twenty gerahs; a half shekel as an offering to the Lord.

They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

14 E veryone from twenty years old and upward, as he joins those already numbered, shall give this offering to the Lord.

Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

15 T he rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when give this offering to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

16 A nd you shall take the atonement money of the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may bring the Israelites to remembrance before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.

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 Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

17 A nd the Lord said to Moses,

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

18 Y ou shall also make a laver or large basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it;

“You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 T here Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.

Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

20 W hen they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord,

When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall 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 Yahweh.

21 S o they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die; it shall be a perpetual statute for and his descendants throughout their generations.

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”

22 M oreover, the Lord said to Moses,

Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23 T ake the best spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, of sweet-scented cinnamon half as much, 250 shekels, of fragrant calamus 250 shekels,

“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

24 A nd of cassia 500 shekels, in terms of the sanctuary shekel, and of olive oil a hin.

and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

25 A nd you shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a sacred anointing oil.

You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 A nd you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting with it, and the ark of the Testimony,

You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

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

the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

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

the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

29 Y ou shall sanctify (separate) them, that they may be most holy; whoever and whatever touches them must be holy (set apart to God).

You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 A nd you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify (separate) them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.

31 A nd say to the Israelites, This is a holy anointing oil, sacred to Me alone throughout your generations.

You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

32 I t shall not be poured upon a layman’s body, nor shall you make any other like it in composition; it is holy, and you shall hold it sacred.

It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.

33 W hoever compounds any like it or puts any of it upon an outsider shall be cut off from his people.

Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”

34 T hen the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, an equal amount of each—

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;

35 A nd make of them incense, a perfume after the perfumer’s art, seasoned with salt and mixed, pure and sacred.

and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

36 Y ou shall beat some of it very small and put some of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.

and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

37 A nd the incense which you shall make according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be to you holy to the Lord.

The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

38 W hoever makes any like it for perfume shall be cut off from his people.

Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”