Exodus
Chapter 30
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1You shall make an altar for turning incense into smoke. You shall make it of acacia wood.
2A A length about as long as a person’s forearm. long and a A length about as long as a person’s forearm. wide, it shall be square, and two Lengths of about a forearm each. high. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its walls all around, and its horns, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
4You shall make two gold rings for it, under its molding, on its two sides. You shall make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for poles, to carry it with them.
5You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6You shall put it in front of the curtain that is over the chest of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest., in front of the cover that is over the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest., where I will meet with you.
7Aaron shall turn fragrant incense into smoke on it morning by morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall turn it into smoke.
8When Aaron sets up the lamps between the evenings, he shall turn it into smoke, a regular incense before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. through your generations.
9You shall not offer strange incense on it, or a whole offering, or a grain gift, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
10Aaron shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. on its horns once a year. With the blood of the offense offering of Making someone right with God after a wrong., once a year, he shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for it through your generations. It is most holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..”
11God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses,
12“When you lift the head of the sons of Israel for their enrollment, each shall give a A payment that buys someone out of a penalty. for his life to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. when you enroll them, so that there is no blow among them when you enroll them.
13This they shall give, everyone who passes among those enrolled: half a A weight of silver used as money. by the holy A weight of silver used as money., twenty Very small weights. Twenty gerahs make one shekel. to the A weight of silver used as money.. Half a A weight of silver used as money. is a contribution to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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The shekel of the holy place is twenty gerahs. The weights are not converted.
14Everyone who passes among those enrolled, from twenty years old and up, shall give God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s contribution.
15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half A weight of silver used as money., when giving God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s contribution, to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for your lives.
16You shall take the Making someone right with God after a wrong. silver from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It shall be a memorial for the sons of Israel before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for your lives.”
17God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses,
18“You shall make a bronze basin, and its bronze stand, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water there.
19Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it.
20When they go into the tent of meeting they shall wash with water, so that they do not die, or when they come near the altar to serve, to turn a food gift into smoke for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
21They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die. It shall be a lasting A rule that is meant to last. for them, for him and for his seed through their generations.”
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses,
23“You, take for yourself the best spices: flowing A bitter, sweet-smelling tree sap used as perfume., five hundred, and sweet cinnamon, half as much, two hundred and fifty, and aromatic cane, two hundred and fifty,
24and cassia, five hundred, by the holy A weight of silver used as money., and a A measure for liquids such as oil and wine. of olive oil.
25You shall make it a holy Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil, a perfumer’s blend, the work of a perfumer. It shall be a holy Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil.
26You shall To pour oil on someone or something to set them apart for God. with it the tent of meeting and the chest of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest.,
27the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and the incense altar,
28the altar of the whole offering and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand.
29You shall set them apart, and they shall be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
30You shall To pour oil on someone or something to set them apart for God. Aaron and his sons and set them apart to serve me as priests.
31You shall speak to the sons of Israel: This shall be a holy Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil for me through your generations.
32It shall not be poured on an ordinary person’s flesh, and you shall not make anything like it in its recipe. It is holy. It shall be holy for you.
33Whoever blends anything like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.”
34God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices: nataph, shechelet, and chelbenah, spices, and pure levonah. There shall be an equal part of each.
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Nataph, shechelet, and chelbenah are kept as names. Their modern plant identities are not settled. Levonah is frankincense. “Stacte,” “onycha,” and “galbanum” are later identifications, and they are not printed as if the Hebrew had settled them.
35You shall make it an incense, a blend, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.
36You shall beat some of it fine and put some of it in front of the The stone tablets of God’s agreement, kept in the chest. in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy for you.
37The incense you make, in its recipe, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be holy for you, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
38Whoever makes anything like it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.”