124 lines
5.3 KiB
Markdown
124 lines
5.3 KiB
Markdown
## The Altar of Incense
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"Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
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###### 2
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Its length _shall be_ a cubit, and its width a cubit; it shall be square. And its height _shall be_ two cubits; its horns _shall be_ of the same piece.
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###### 3
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You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.
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###### 4
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You shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make _them_ on its two side walls--on opposite sides--and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.
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You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
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###### 7
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Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps.
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###### 8
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When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. _There shall be_ continual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
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###### 9
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You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar or burnt offering or grain offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
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Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
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## The Census and the Atonement Price
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Yahweh also spoke to Moses, saying,
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"When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a _price of_ atonement for himself to Yahweh when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.
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This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to Yahweh.
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Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to Yahweh.
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The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel when you give the contribution to Yahweh to make atonement for your souls.
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And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a remembrance for the sons of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
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## The Laver for the Priestly Washing
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And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
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And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet from it;
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when they come into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire _sacrifice_ to Yahweh.
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So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute for them, for Aaron and his seed throughout their generations."
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## The Holy Anointing Oil
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Moreover, Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"But as for you, take for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh 500 _shekels_, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250,
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and of cassia 500, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.
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And You shall make of these a holy anointing oil, a perfume mixture, the work of a perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
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And with it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
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and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
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and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.
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You shall also set them apart as holy, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
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And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and you shall set them apart as holy, that they may minister as priests to Me.
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And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
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It shall not be poured on anyone's body, nor shall you make _any_ like it in the same specifications; it is holy, _and_ it shall be holy to you.
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Whoever shall mix _any_ like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.'"
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## The Incense
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Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Take for yourself fragrances, stacte and onycha and galbanum, fragrances with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.
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With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, _and_ holy.
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###### 36
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You shall beat some of it very fine, and you shall put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
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The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same specifications for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for Yahweh.
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###### 38
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Whoever shall make _any_ like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people."
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