1: "Make an Altar for burning incense. Construct it from acacia wood,
2: one and one-half feet square and three feet high with its horns of one piece with it.
3: Cover it with a veneer of pure gold, its top, sides, and horns, and make a gold molding around it
4: with two rings of gold beneath the molding. Place the rings on the two opposing sides to serve as holders for poles by which it will be carried.
5: Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with a veneer of gold.
6: "Place the Altar in front of the curtain that hides the Chest of The Testimony, in front of the Atonement-Cover that is over The Testimony where I will meet you.
7: Aaron will burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he polishes the lamps,
8: and again in the evening as he prepares the lamps for lighting, so that there will always be incense burning before GOD, generation after generation.
9: But don't burn on this Altar any unholy incense or Whole-Burnt-Offering or Grain-Offering. And don't pour out Drink-Offerings on it.
10: Once a year Aaron is to purify the Altar horns. Using the blood of the Absolution-Offering of atonement, he is to make this atonement every year down through the generations. It is most holy to GOD."
11: GOD spoke to Moses:
12: "When you take a head count of the Israelites to keep track of them, all must pay an atonement-tax to GOD for their life at the time of being registered so that nothing bad will happen because of the registration.
13: Everyone who gets counted is to give a half-shekel (using the standard Sanctuary shekel of a fifth of an ounce to the shekel)-a half-shekel offering to GOD.
14: Everyone counted, age twenty and up, is to make the offering to GOD.
15: The rich are not to pay more nor the poor less than the half-shekel offering to GOD, the atonement-tax for your lives.
16: Take the atonement-tax money from the Israelites and put it to the maintenance of the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial fund for the Israelites in honor of GOD, making atonement for your lives."
17: GOD spoke to Moses:
18: "Make a bronze Washbasin; make it with a bronze base. Place it between the Tent of Meeting and the Altar. Put water in it.
19: Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and feet in it.
20: When they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the Altar to serve there or offer gift offerings to GOD, they are to wash so they will not die.
21: They are to wash their hands and their feet so they will not die. This is the rule forever, for Aaron and his sons down through the generations."
22: GOD spoke to Moses:
23: "Take the best spices: twelve and a half pounds of liquid myrrh; half that much, six and a quarter pounds, of fragrant cinnamon; six and a quarter pounds of fragrant cane;
24: twelve and a half pounds of cassia--using the standard Sanctuary weight for all of them--and a gallon of olive oil.
25: Make these into a holy anointing oil, a perfumer's skillful blend.
26: "Use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the Chest of The Testimony,
27: the Table and all its utensils, the Lampstand and its utensils, the Altar of Incense,
28: the Altar of Whole-Burnt-Offerings and all its utensils, and the Washbasin and its base.
29: Consecrate them so they'll be soaked in holiness, so that anyone who so much as touches them will become holy.
30: "Then anoint Aaron and his sons. Consecrate them as priests to me.
31: Tell the Israelites, "This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.'
32: Don't pour it on ordinary men. Don't copy this mixture to use for yourselves. It's holy; keep it holy.
33: Whoever mixes up anything like it, or puts it on an ordinary person, will be expelled."
34: GOD spoke to Moses: "Take fragrant spices--gum resin, onycha, galbanum--and add pure frankincense. Mix the spices in equal proportions
35: to make an aromatic incense, the art of a perfumer, salted and pure--holy.
36: Now crush some of it into powder and place some of it before The Testimony in the Tent of Meeting where I will meet with you; it will be for you the holiest of holy places.
37: When you make this incense, you are not to copy the mixture for your own use. It's holy to GOD; keep it that way.
38: Whoever copies it for personal use will be excommunicated."