¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.

³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

⁴ Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.

⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.

⁶ And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you.

⁷ And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.

⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.

⁹ No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

¹⁰ And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹² When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

¹³ And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

¹⁴ Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.

¹⁵ The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

¹⁶ And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁸ You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;

¹⁹ That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

²⁰ Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

²¹ Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.

²² And the Lord said to Moses,

²³ Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

²⁴ And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:

²⁵ And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

²⁶ This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,

²⁷ And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,

²⁸ And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.

²⁹ And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.

³⁰ And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.

³¹ And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.

³² It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.

³³ Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;

³⁵ And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.

³⁶ And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy.

³⁷ You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

³⁸ Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

¹ For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

² Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

³ But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

⁶ You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

⁷ Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"

⁸ Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

⁹ then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

¹⁰ by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

¹² but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

¹³ from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

¹⁴ For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵ The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

¹⁶ "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

¹⁷ "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."

¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

¹⁹ Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

²¹ and having a great priest over the house of God,

²² let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

²³ let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

²⁴ Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

²⁶ For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

²⁸ A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³² But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

³³ partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

³⁴ For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

³⁵ Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

³⁶ For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

³⁷ "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

³⁸ But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.