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And thou shalt make an altar for the burning· of incense ·as··incense; of shittim* wood shalt thou make it.
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A cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits its height; out of it shall be its horns.
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And thou shalt overlay it with pure◦ gold, its roof and its walls◦ round··about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a rim of gold all around.
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And thou shalt make for it two rings of gold beneath its rim, upon its two ribs; upon its two ribs shalt thou make them; and it shall be for the housings for the poles, to carry it in them.
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And thou shalt make the poles of shittim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
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And thou shalt put it before the veil that is over the ark of the Testimony, before the place of atonement that is over the Testimony, whither I will meet··together with thee.
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And Aaron shall burn··incense on it, fragrant incense in the morning by the morning; in his adorning the lamps* he shall burn· it ·for··incense.
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And when Aaron causes the flame of the lamps to go··up* between the two··evenings*, he shall burn· it ·for··incense, a continual incense before Jehovah for your generations.
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You shall not offer··up strange incense nor burnt··offering nor gift··offering upon it; and you shall not pour··out a poured··offering upon it.
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And Aaron shall make··atonement upon the horns of it once in the year, from the blood of the sin offering of atonements; once in the year he shall make··atonement upon it to your generations; a holy of holies is this◦ to Jehovah.
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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When◦ thou shalt take··up the sum of the sons of Israel, as to those who are numbered◦ of them, then they shall give, each··man◦, an atonement of his soul to Jehovah when numbering◦ them, that there be not among◦ them a plague striking when numbering◦ them.
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This they shall give, everyone that passes··by upon those who are numbered◦, half a shekel, in the shekel of holiness, a shekel of twenty gerahs, the half of a shekel an uplifting to Jehovah.
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Everyone that passes··by upon those who are numbered◦, from a son of twenty years and upward, shall give an uplifting to Jehovah.
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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half of the shekel, to give the uplifting◦ to Jehovah, to make··atonement on your souls.
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And thou shalt take the silver of atonements from among the sons of Israel, and thou shalt give it for the service of the Tabernacle of the congregation◦; and it shall be to the sons of Israel for a memorial before Jehovah, to make··atonement upon your souls.
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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And thou shalt make a laver of bronze, and its base of bronze, for bathing; and thou shalt put◦ it between the Tabernacle of the congregation◦ and the altar, and thou shalt put◦ waters there.
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And Aaron and his sons shall bathe from it their hands and their feet.
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When they come into the Tabernacle of the congregation◦ they shall bathe with waters, that they die not; or when they approach the altar to minister, to burn··for··incense a fire··offering to Jehovah.
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And they shall bathe their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it shall be to them a statute of an age, to him and to his seed, to their generations.
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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And take thou◦ for thee the foremost spices, the best◦ myrrh* five hundred, and cinnamon spice the half of it, fifty and two··hundred, and calamus spice, fifty and two··hundred;
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and cassia five hundred, in the shekel of holiness; and oil of olive a hin.
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And thou shalt make it an oil of anointing of holiness, an ointment of ointment, made··by the ointment··maker; an oil of anointing of holiness it shall be.
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And thou shalt anoint with it the Tabernacle of the congregation◦, and the ark of the Testimony;
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and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense;
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and the altar of burnt··offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.
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And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be a holy of holies; whoever touches them shall be made··holy.
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And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, to be··priests to Me.
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And thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This shall be for Me an oil of anointing of holiness for your generations.
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On the flesh of man shall it not be poured··out; and according to its fixed··measure you shall not make any like▵ it; holy it is; holy shall it be to you.
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The man◦ who shall make··ointment like it, and who shall put◦ of it on a stranger, even he shall be cut··off from his peoples.
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And Jehovah said to Moses, Take for thee fragrances, a drop, and onycha, and galbanum, fragrances, and pure▵ frankincense, so much in so much shall it be.
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And thou shalt make it an incense, an ointment made··by the ointment··maker, salted, pure◦, holy.
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And thou shalt pound some of it, making· it ·thin, and shalt put◦ some of it before the Testimony in the Tabernacle of the congregation◦, whither I will meet··together with thee, a holy of holies shall it be to you.
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And the incense which thou makest in its fixed··measure, you shall not make for yourselves; holy to Jehovah shall it be to thee.
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The man◦ who shall make like to it, to cause a smell with it, even▵ he shall be cut··off from his peoples.