¹You will make an altar, a smoke-place for incense; of acacia wood you will make it.

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

³You will overlay it with clean gold: its top, its walls all around, and its horns. And you will make for it a molding of gold all around.

⁴And two rings of gold you will make for it, from under its molding, on its two flanks you will make them, on its two sides; and they will be holders for poles, to carry it by them.

⁵You will make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

⁶You will put it before the face of the curtain that is over the ark of the testimony, before the face of the atonement cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you there.

⁷On it Aaron will make smoke with incense of spices, morning by morning, when he sets the lamps right, he will make it smoke.

⁸And when Aaron makes the lamps rise in flame between the evenings, he will make it smoke: a continual incense before the face of Yahweh, for your generations.

⁹You will not offer up on it strange incense, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; and a drink offering you will not pour out on it.

¹⁰Once in the year Aaron will cover over its horns; from the blood of the sin offering of the atonements, once in the year he will cover over it, for your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.

¹¹Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:

¹²When you take up the sum of the children of Israel, according to those mustered of them, each man will give a ransom for his being to Yahweh when you muster them, and there will be no blow among them when you muster them.

¹³This is what everyone who passes over to those mustered will give: half a shekel by the shekel of the holy place, twenty gerahs to the shekel; half a shekel is a contribution to Yahweh.

¹⁴Everyone who passes over to those mustered, from twenty years old and upward, will give the contribution of Yahweh.

¹⁵The rich will not make more, and the poor will not make less, than half the shekel, when giving the contribution of Yahweh, to cover over your living beings.

¹⁶You will take the silver of the atonements from the children of Israel and put it to the work of the tent of appointed meeting; and it will be for the children of Israel a memorial before the face of Yahweh, to cover over your living beings.

¹⁷Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:

¹⁸You will make a basin of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you will put it between the tent of appointed meeting and the altar, and you will put water there.

¹⁹Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet from it.

²⁰When they go into the tent of appointed meeting, they will wash with water so that they do not die; or when they draw near to the altar to serve, to make a fire offering smoke to Yahweh,

²¹They will wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And it will be a decree forever for them, for him and for his seed, for their generations.

²²Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:

²³And you, take for yourself spices of the best: five hundred of flowing myrrh, and fragrant cinnamon, half of it, two hundred fifty, and fragrant reed, two hundred fifty.

²⁴and cassia, five hundred, by the shekel of the holy place; and a hin of olive oil.

²⁵You will make it into oil of holy anointing, a spice blend of ointment, the work of a perfumer; it will be oil of holy anointing.

²⁶You will anoint with it the tent of the appointed time, and the ark of the testimony,

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

²⁸and the altar of the burnt offering and all its articles, and the basin and its base.

²⁹You will set apart them, and they will be most holy; everything that touches them will be set apart.

³⁰And Aaron and his sons you will anoint, and set apart them to serve as priests for me.

³¹And to the children of Israel you will speak, saying: This will be oil of holy anointing for me throughout your generations.

³²On the flesh of a person it must not be poured, and you must not make anything like it in its proportions; it is holy, it will be holy to you.

³³Anyone who mixes any like it, or who puts any of it on an outsider, will be cut off from his people.

³⁴Yahweh said to Moses: Take for yourself spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum, these spices, and pure frankincense; part for part let it be.

³⁵You will make it into incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, clean, a holy thing.

³⁶You will beat some of it fine, to powder, and you will put some of it before the testimony in the tent of the appointed time, where I will meet with you there. It will be most holy to you.

³⁷As for the incense that you make, you must not make any for yourselves in its proportions; it will be a holy thing to you, for Yahweh.

³⁸Anyone who makes any like it, to smell it, will be cut off from his people.