Exodus 31:1 — Exodus 31:18

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

3 And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with understanding and with knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship,

4 To fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,

5 And in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.

6 And now, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise in heart I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

7 The Tent of Meeting, and the Ark of the Testimony and the expiation cover that is on it, and all the utensils of the tent,

8 And the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

9 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base,

10 And the finely worked garments, both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for them to serve as priests,

11 And the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant spices for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.

12 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.

14 Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Jehovah; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

18 And when He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 30:11 — Exodus 30:38

11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those of them who are numbered, then every man shall give a ransom for himself to Jehovah, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them when you number them.

13 This they shall give, everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a heave offering to Jehovah.

14 Everyone enrolled with those who are numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the heave offering of Jehovah.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half shekel, when you give the heave offering of Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.

16 And you shall take the expiation silver from the children of Israel and shall give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting, that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah to make expiation for your souls.

17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

18 You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet with water from it;

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah,

21 Then they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die. And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.

22 Moreover Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

23 You also take the finest spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred fifty shekels, and of fragrant calamus two hundred fifty shekels,

24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded according to the perfumer’s art; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 And with it you shall anoint the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of the Testimony,

27 And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base.

29 Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them that they may serve Me as priests.

31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.

32 Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured, nor shall you make any like it, according to its composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.

34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant spices – stacte and onycha and galbanum – fragrant spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each;

35 And you shall make of it incense, a perfume according to the perfumer’s art, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

36 And you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy.

37 And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make for yourselves according to its composition; it shall be holy to you for Jehovah.

38 Whoever shall make any like it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.

Exodus 29:37 — Exodus 30:10

37 Seven days you shall make expiation for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall become most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old each day continually.

39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.

40 And with the one lamb a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight; you shall offer it with the meal offering and its drink offering as in the morning, for a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and it shall be sanctified by My glory.

44 And I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify to serve Me as priests.

45 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will be their God.

46 And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell in the midst of them; I am Jehovah their God.

CHAPTER 30

1 And you shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length shall be a cubit and its width a cubit; it shall be square, and two cubits its height; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides around it and its horns; and you shall make a rim of gold around it.

4 And you shall make for it two golden rings under its rim; on its two sides, on its opposite sides you shall make them; and they shall be as holders for poles with which to carry it.

5 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

6 And you shall put it before the veil that is over the Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

7 And Aaron shall burn on it fragrant incense; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.

8 And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

9 You shall not offer any strange incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

10 And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of expiation once a year he shall make expiation for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Jehovah.

Exodus 29:1 — Exodus 29:20

1 And this is what you shall do to them to sanctify them to serve Me as priests: take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish,

2 And unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

3 And you shall put them into one basket and present them in the basket with the bull and the two rams.

4 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons near to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.

5 And you shall take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

6 And you shall place the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

7 Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

8 And you shall bring his sons near and put tunics on them.

9 And you shall gird them with girding sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind high hats on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall fill the hands of Aaron and his sons.

10 And you shall present the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

11 And you shall slaughter the bull before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

12 And you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put some of it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts and the appendage on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

15 And you shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

16 And you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it on and around the altar.

17 Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces and wash its inward parts and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head.

18 And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is a satisfying fragrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

19 And you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

20 Then you shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobe of the right ear of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the rest of the blood on and around the altar.