Exodus 30
Exodus 30:1 “You should make an altar on which to burn incense; from the wood of acacia trees, you should make it.
Exodus 30:2 Its length should be one cubit, and its breadth one cubit. It should be square, and its height should be two cubits. Its horns should be of one piece with it.
Exodus 30:3 You should overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. You should also make a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 30:4 And you should make two golden rings for it. You should place them under its molding on two opposite sides of it, and they should serve as houses for poles with which to carry it.
Exodus 30:5 You should make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Exodus 30:6 And you should put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the reminder, in front of the atonement cover that is above the reminder, where I will meet with you.
Exodus 30:7 And Aaron should burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he should burn it,
Exodus 30:8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he should burn it, a regular incense offering before Yahveh throughout your generations.
Exodus 30:9 You should not offer unauthorized incense on it, or an ascending offering, or a grain offering, and you should not pour a drink offering on it.
Exodus 30:10 Aaron should make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he should make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most sacred to Yahveh.”
Exodus 30:11 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Exodus 30:12 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each should give a ransom for his throat to Yahveh when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
Exodus 30:13 Each one who is numbered in the census should give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel equaling twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to Yahveh.
Exodus 30:14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and older, should give Yahveh’s offering.
Exodus 30:15 The rich should not give any more, and the poor should not give less, than the half shekel, when you give Yahveh’s offering to make atonement for your throats.
Exodus 30:16 You should take the atonement money from the people of Israel and should give it for the service of the conference tent, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before Yahveh, so as to make atonement for your throats.”
Exodus 30:17 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Exodus 30:18 “You should also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You should put it between the conference tent and the altar, and you should put water in it,
Exodus 30:19 with this, Aaron and his sons can wash their hands and their feet.
Exodus 30:20 When they go into the conference tent, they should wash with water, so that they may not die. When they come near the altar to minister, to burn a fire offering to Yahveh,
Exodus 30:21 they should wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It should be a permanent prescribed task for them, both to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”
Exodus 30:22 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Exodus 30:23 “And you, take for yourself the best spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of sweet-smelling cane,
Exodus 30:24 and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.
Exodus 30:25 And you should make of these a sacred anointing oil blended like the perfumer would; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
Exodus 30:26 With it you should anoint the conference tent and the ark of the reminder,
Exodus 30:27 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Exodus 30:28 and the altar of ascending offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Exodus 30:29 You should consecrate them, so that they may be most sacred. Whatever touches them is to be sacred.
Exodus 30:30 You should anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Exodus 30:31 And you should say to the people of Israel, ‘This should be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.
Exodus 30:32 It should not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you should make no other like it in composition. It is sacred, and it should be sacred to you.
Exodus 30:33 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider should be cut off from his people.'”
Exodus 30:34 Yahveh said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each there should be an equal part),
Exodus 30:35 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and sacred.
Exodus 30:36 You should beat some of it very fine and put part of it before the reminder in the conference tent where I should meet with you. It should be most sacred for you.
Exodus 30:37 And the incense that you should make according to its composition, you should not make for yourselves. It should be for you sacred to Yahveh.
Exodus 30:38 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume should be cut off from his people.”
Exodus 30 quotes:
“Three metals are mentioned, gold alone being used for the main sanctuary furnishings. Altogether roughly one ton of gold, three tons of copper, and four tons of silver (Exodus 38:24-31) were used. The relatively large amounts of silver came from gifts freely offered by the people (Exodus 30:11-16), and this was added to the silver and gold already obtained from the Egyptians (Exodus 12:15).”
Dowley, Tim. The Tabernacle. Candle Books, 2001. p. 15.
“he Golden Altar of Incense was placed in the following position: It was before the Veil. Exodus 30:6 It was also before the Ark. Exodus 40:5 It is spoken of as being before the Mercy Seat. Exodus 30:6. This would place the Incense Altar in line with the Ark of the Covenant, or at the ‘‘Heart” of the Tabernacle, in the Holy Place.”
Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 12.
“Two kinds of outstanding cleansing experiences took place at the laver. First, at the time when the priests consecrated themselves to the office of priesthood the entire body was washed here at the laver (Exodus 29:4; Leviticus 8:6). And second, the priests washed both hands and feet before entering the tabernacle, before ministering at the brazen altar, and before offering a burnt offering (Exodus 30:20, 21). Washing resulted in cleansing. Unless the priests experienced cleansing themselves, they were both unfit to carry on the service of the Lord and were liable for death (Exodus 30:21).”
Zehr, Paul M. God Dwells with His People : A Study of Israel’s Ancient Tabernacle. Herald Press, 1981. p. 54.
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