Sinai & The Law

You are to take the atonement money from the people of Isra'el and use it for the service in the tent of meeting, so that it will be a reminder of the people of Isra'el before ADONAI to atone for your lives."

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"You are to make a basin of bronze, with a base of bronze, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

Aharon and his sons will wash their hands and feet there

when they enter the tent of meeting - they are to wash with water, so that they won't die. Also when they approach the altar to minister by burning an offering for ADONAI,

they are to wash their hands and feet, so that they won't die. This is to be a perpetual law for them through all their generations."

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Take the best spices - 500 shekels of myrrh [121/2 pounds], half this amount (250 shekels) of aromatic cinnamon [61/4 pounds], 250 shekels of aromatic cane,

500 shekels of cassia (use the sanctuary standard), and one gallon of olive oil -

and make them into a holy anointing oil; blend it and perfume it as would an expert perfume-maker; it will be a holy anointing oil.

Use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark for the testimony,

the table and all its utensils, the menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar,

the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

You are to consecrate them - they will be especially holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.

Then you are to anoint Aharon and his sons - you are to consecrate them to serve me in the office of cohen.

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'This is to be a holy anointing oil for me through all your generations.

It is not to be used for anointing a person's body; and you are not to make any like it, with the same composition of ingredients - it is holy, and you are to treat it as holy.

Whoever makes any like it or uses it on any unauthorized person is to be cut off from his people.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Take aromatic plant substances - balsam resin, sweet onycha root and bitter galbanum gum - these spices along with frankincense, all in equal quantities;

and make incense, blended and perfumed as would an expert perfume-maker, salted, pure and holy.

You are to grind up some of it very finely and put it in front of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; you are to regard it as especially holy.

You are not to make for your own use any incense like it, with the same composition of ingredients - you are to treat it as holy, for ADONAI.

Whoever makes up any like it to use as perfume is to be cut off from his people."

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"I have singled out B'tzal'el the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Y'hudah.