Capítulo 30

1 - "Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.

2 - It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high That is, about 1 1/2 feet long and wide and 3 feet high or about 45 centimeters long and wide and 90 centimeters high - its horns of one piece with it.

3 - Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

4 - Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding - two on each of the opposite sides - to hold the poles used to carry it.

5 - Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

6 - Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law - before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law - where I will meet with you.

7 - "Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.

8 - He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the Lord for the generations to come.

9 - Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.

10 - Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering Or [purification offering] for the generations to come. It is most holy to the Lord."

11 - Then the Lord said to Moses,

12 - "When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

13 - Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.8 grams; also in verse 15 according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.

14 - All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the Lord.

15 - The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.

16 - Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord, making atonement for your lives."

17 - Then the Lord said to Moses,

18 - "Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

19 - Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.

20 - Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord,

21 - they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come."

22 - Then the Lord said to Moses,

23 - "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels That is, about 12 1/2 pounds or about 5.8 kilograms; also in verse 24 of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels That is, about 6 1/4 pounds or about 2.9 kilograms of fragrant calamus,

24 - 500 shekels of cassia - all according to the sanctuary shekel - and a hin That is, probably about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters of olive oil.

25 - Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil.

26 - Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,

27 - the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

28 - the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.

29 - You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

30 - "Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.

31 - Say to the Israelites, 'This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.

32 - Do not pour it on anyone else's body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.

33 - Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.'"

34 - Then the Lord said to Moses, "Take fragrant spices - gum resin, onycha and galbanum - and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,

35 - and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

36 - Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

37 - Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the Lord.

38 - Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people."