You shall not offer unholy incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
Once a year Aaron shall perform the rite of atonement on its horns. Throughout your generations he shall perform the atonement for it once a year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. It is most holy to the LORD.
11 The LORD spoke to Moses:
When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the LORD, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
This is what each one who is registered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
Each one who is registered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you bring this offering to the LORD to make atonement for your lives.
You shall take the atonement money from the Israelites and shall designate it for the service of the tent of meeting; before the LORD it will be a reminder to the Israelites of the ransom given for your lives.
17 The LORD spoke to Moses:
You shall make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it;
with the water[73 (#ulink_3f4903d3-7db4-5d96-833f-0383fff685ff)] Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to make an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.
They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his descendants throughout their generations.
22 The LORD spoke to Moses:
Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two hundred fifty of aromatic cane,
and five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil;
and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the covenant,[74 (#ulink_3ec4fa30-62c3-5a9f-b4e8-0c1ed98f0145)]
and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand;
you shall consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.
You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, in order that they may serve me as priests.
You shall say to the Israelites, “This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
It shall not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people.”
34 The LORD said to Moses: Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (an equal part of each),
and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy;
and you shall beat some of it into powder, and put part of it before the covenant[74 (#ulink_3ec4fa30-62c3-5a9f-b4e8-0c1ed98f0145)] in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy.
When you make incense according to this composition, you shall not make it for yourselves; it shall be regarded by you as holy to the LORD.
Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from the people.
31 The LORD spoke to Moses:
See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
and I have filled him with divine spirit,[75 (#ulink_eb846bdf-88b5-534f-834d-1ca11fae37ac)] with ability, intelligence, and knowledge in every kind of craft,
to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,
in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, in every kind of craft.
Moreover, I have appointed with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given skill to all the skillful, so that they may make all that I have commanded you:
the tent of meeting, and the ark of the covenant,[74 (#ulink_3ec4fa30-62c3-5a9f-b4e8-0c1ed98f0145)] and the mercy seat[76 (#ulink_591b52f7-2587-5b8a-ab11-125c75a22693)] that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent,
the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,
and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand,
and the finely worked vestments, the holy vestments for the priest Aaron and the vestments of his sons, for their service as priests,
and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the holy place. They shall do just as I have commanded you.
12 The LORD said to Moses:
You yourself are to speak to the Israelites: “You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, given in order that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.
You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; everyone who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it shall be cut off from among the people.
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.
Therefore the Israelites shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”
18 When God[77 (#ulink_6159486b-9458-5ab7-82e3-18770f88bc59)] finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant,[78 (#ulink_ead4cf5f-197b-5c84-9b9f-4d41baf91adb)] tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
