(Exodus 37:25–29)
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“And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood;
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a cubit its length and a cubit its breadth (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns [are] of the same.
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And you have overlaid it with pure gold—its top, and around its sides, and its horns; and you have made a crown of gold for it all around;
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and you make two rings of gold for it, under its crown on its two ribs; you make [them] on its two sides, and they have become places for poles to carry it with them.
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And you have made the poles of shittim wood, and have overlaid them with gold;
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and you have put it before the veil, which [is] by the Ark of the Testimony, before the propitiatory covering which [is] over the Testimony, where I meet with you.
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And Aaron has made incense on it, incense of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right, he makes incense [on] it,
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and in Aaron’s causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he makes incense [on] it; [it is] a continual incense before YHWH throughout your generations.
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You do not cause strange incense to go up on it—and burnt-offering and present; and you do not pour out a drink-offering on it;
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and Aaron has made atonement on its horns once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year he makes atonement for it, throughout your generations; it [is] most holy to YHWH.”
The Census Offering
(2 Samuel 24:1–9; 1 Chronicles 21:1–6)
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“When you take up the census of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have each given an atonement [for] his soul to YHWH in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.
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This they give, everyone passing over to those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the holy place (the shekel [is] twenty gerahs); half a shekel [is] the raised-offering to YHWH;
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everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, gives the raised-offering of YHWH;
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the rich do not multiply, and the poor do not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the raised-offering of YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.
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And you have taken the atonement-money from the sons of Israel, and have given it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; and it has been to the sons of Israel for a memorial before YHWH, to make atonement for your souls.”
The Bronze Basin
(Exodus 38:8)
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“And you have made a laver of bronze (and its base of bronze), for washing; and you have put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and have put water [in] there,
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and Aaron and his sons have washed their hands and their feet from it;
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they wash [with] water in their going into the Tent of Meeting, and do not die; or in their drawing near to the altar to minister, to make incense [as] a fire-offering to YHWH,
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then they have washed their hands and their feet, and they do not die, and it has been a continuous statute to them, to him and to his seed, throughout their generations.”
The Anointing Oil
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“And you, take [these] principal spices for yourself: five hundred [shekels] of liquid myrrh, and the half of that—two hundred and fifty [shekels]—of spice-cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty [shekels] of spice-cane,
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and five hundred [shekels] of cassia, by the shekel of the holy place, and a hin of olive oil;
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and you have made it a holy anointing oil, a compound mixture, work of a compounder; it is a holy anointing oil.
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And with it you have anointed the Tent of Meeting, 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 you have sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;
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and you anoint Aaron and his sons, and have sanctified them for being priests to Me.
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And you speak to the sons of Israel, saying, This is a holy anointing oil to Me, throughout your generations;
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it is not poured on [the] flesh of man, and you make nothing [else] like it in its proportion; it [is] holy—it is holy to you;
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a man who compounds [any] like it, or who puts of it on a stranger, has even been cut off from his people.”
The Incense
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And YHWH says to Moses, “Take to yourself spices—stacte, and onycha, and galbanum—spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;
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and you have made it an incense, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy;
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and you have beaten [some] of it small, and have put of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, to where I meet with you; it is most holy to you.
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As for the incense which you make, you do not make [any] for yourselves in its proportion; it is holy to you for YHWH;
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a man who makes [any] like it—to be refreshed by it—has even been cut off from his people.”
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