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Exodus 30:1-21
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"You are to make an altar on which to burn incense; make it of acacia-wood.
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It is to be eighteen inches square and three feet high; its horns are to be of one piece with it.
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Overlay it with pure gold - its top, all around its sides, and its horns; and put around it a molding of gold.
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Make two gold rings for it under its molding at the two corners on both sides; this is where the carrying-poles will go.
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Make the poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.
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"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.
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Aharon will burn fragrant incense on it as a pleasing aroma every morning; he is to burn it when he prepares the lamps.
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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.
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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.
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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
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ADONAI said to Moshe,
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"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.
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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).
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Everyone over twenty years of age who is subject to the census is to give this offering to ADONAI -
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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.
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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."
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ADONAI said to Moshe,
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"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.
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Aharon and his sons will wash their hands and feet there
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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,
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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."
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