Sinai & The Law

Seven days you will make atonement on the altar and consecrate it; thus the altar will be especially holy, and whatever touches the altar will become holy.

"Now this is what you are to offer on the altar: two lambs a year old, regularly, every day.

The one lamb you are to offer in the morning and the other lamb at dusk.

With the one lamb offer two quarts of finely ground flour mixed with one quart of oil from pressed olives; along with one quart of wine as a drink offering.

The other lamb you are to offer at dusk; do with it as with the morning grain and drink offerings - it will be a pleasing aroma, an offering made to ADONAI by fire.

Through all your generations this is to be the regular burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting before ADONAI. There is where I will meet with you to speak with you.

There I will meet with the people of Isra'el; and the place will be consecrated by my glory.

I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar, likewise I will consecrate Aharon and his sons to serve me in the office of cohen.

Then I will live with the people of Isra'el and be their God:

they will know that I am ADONAI their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt in order to live with them. I am ADONAI their God.

"You are to make an altar on which to burn incense; make it of acacia-wood.

It is to be eighteen inches square and three feet high; its horns are to be of one piece with it.

Overlay it with pure gold - its top, all around its sides, and its horns; and put around it a molding of gold.

Make two gold rings for it under its molding at the two corners on both sides; this is where the carrying-poles will go.

Make the poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.

"Place it in front of the curtain by the ark for the testimony, in front of the ark-cover that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Aharon will burn fragrant incense on it as a pleasing aroma every morning; he is to burn it when he prepares the lamps.

Aharon is also to burn it when he lights the lamps at dusk; this is the regular burning of incense before ADONAI through all your generations.

You are not to offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering or a grain offering; and you are not to pour a drink offering on it.

Aharon is to make atonement on its horns once a year - with the blood of the sin offering of atonement he is to make atonement for it once a year through all your generations; it is especially holy to ADONAI." 10-20

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"When you take a census of the people of Isra'el and register them, each, upon registration, is to pay a ransom for his life to ADONAI, to avoid any breakout of plague among them during the time of the census.

Everyone subject to the census is to pay as an offering to ADONAI half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce of silver]- by the standard of the sanctuary shekel (a shekel equals twenty gerahs).

Everyone over twenty years of age who is subject to the census is to give this offering to ADONAI -

the rich is not to give more or the poor less than the half-shekel when giving ADONAI's offering to atone for your lives.