Shmot (Exodus) - Chapter 30

30:1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood. 30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 30:3 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. 30:4 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. 30:5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 30:6 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. 30:7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it. 30:8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, as perpetual incense before Mar-Yah throughout your generations. 30:9 You shall offer no foreign incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it. 30:10 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 Mar-Yah."

30:11 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 30:12 "When you take a census of the B'nai Yisrael, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Mar-Yah, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them. 30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel being twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Mar-Yah. 30:14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Mar-Yah. 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Mar-Yah, to make atonement for your souls. 30:16 You shall take the atonement money from the B'nai Yisrael, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tabernacle; that it may be a memorial for the B'nai Yisrael before Mar-Yah, to make atonement for your souls."

30:17 Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 30:18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tabernacle and the altar, and you shall put water in it. 30:19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. 30:20 When they go into the Tabernacle, 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 Mar-Yah. 30:21 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."

30:22 Moreover Mar-Yah spoke to Mosha, saying, 30:23 "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; 30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil. 30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. 30:26 You shall use it to anoint the Tabernacle, the ark of the testimony, 30:27 the table and all its articles, the menorah and its accessories, the altar of incense, 30:28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base. 30:29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy. 30:30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. 30:31 You shall speak to the B'nai Yisrael, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. 30:32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you. 30:33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

30:34 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight; 30:35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy: 30:36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tabernacle, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy. 30:37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Mar-Yah. 30:38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."