1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall you make it. Compare verse1 commentary
2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. Compare verse
3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and you shall make to it a crown of gold round about. Compare verse
4 And two golden rings shall you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, on the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it with. Compare verse
5 And you shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. Compare verse
6 And 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. Compare verse1 commentary
7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. Compare verse1 commentary
8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. Compare verse
9 You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall you pour drink offering thereon. Compare verse
10 And Aaron shall make an atonement on the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement on it throughout your generations: it is most holy to the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Compare verse
12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them. Compare verse
13 This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
14 Every one that passes among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD. Compare verse
15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering to the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. Compare verse
16 And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial to the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. Compare verse
17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Compare verse
18 You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash with: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water therein. Compare verse1 commentary
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: Compare verse
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire to the LORD: Compare verse
21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. Compare verse
22 Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Compare verse
23 Take you also to you principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, Compare verse
24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: Compare verse
25 And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the are of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. Compare verse
26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, Compare verse
27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, Compare verse
28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. Compare verse
29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever touches them shall be holy. Compare verse
30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Compare verse
31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations. Compare verse
32 On man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Compare verse
33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people. Compare verse
34 And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: Compare verse1 commentary
35 And you shall make it a perfume, a confection after the are of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: Compare verse
36 And you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you: it shall be to you most holy. Compare verse
37 And as for the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be to you holy for the LORD. Compare verse
38 Whoever shall make like to that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. Compare verse