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FEBRUARY 9
5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of
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overlay them with gold. And you shall put it sweet-smelling cane, five hundred shekels of
before the veil that is before the ark of the cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctu-
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Testimony, before the mercy seat that is over ary, and a hin of olive oil. And you shall make
the Testimony, where I will meet with you. from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment
7 “Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every compounded according to the art of the per-
morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall fumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil. With it
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burn incense on it. And when Aaron lights the you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting and
lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a the ark of the Testimony; the table and all its
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perpetual incense before the LORD throughout utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, and
your generations. You shall not offer strange the altar of incense; the altar of burnt offer-
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incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain ing with all its utensils, and the laver and its
offering; nor shall you pour a drink offering on base. You shall consecrate them, that they
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it. And Aaron shall make atonement upon its may be most holy; whatever touches them
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horns once a year with the blood of the sin must be holy. And you shall anoint Aaron and
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offering of atonement; once a year he shall his sons, and consecrate them, that they may
make atonement upon it throughout your gen- minister to Me as priests.
erations. It is most holy to the LORD.” 31 “And you shall speak to the children of
11 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: Israel, saying: ‘This shall be a holy anointing
12 “When you take the census of the children of oil to Me throughout your generations. It
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Israel for their number, then every man shall shall not be poured on man’s flesh; nor shall
give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you make any other like it, according to its
you number them, that there may be no composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to
plague among them when you number them. you. Whoever compounds any like it, or who-
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13 This is what everyone among those who are ever puts any of it on an outsider, shall be cut
numbered shall give: half a shekel according off from his people.’ ”
to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is 34 And the LORD said to Moses: “Take sweet
twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, and
offering to the LORD. Everyone included pure frankincense with these sweet spices;
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among those who are numbered, from twenty there shall be equal amounts of each. You
years old and above, shall give an offering to shall make of these an incense, a compound
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the LORD. The rich shall not give more and according to the art of the perfumer, salted,
the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, pure, and holy. And you shall beat some of it
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when you give an offering to the LORD, to very fine, and put some of it before the
make atonement for yourselves. And you Testimony in the tabernacle of meeting where
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shall take the atonement money of the chil- I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to
dren of Israel, and shall appoint it for the serv- you. But as for the incense which you shall
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ice of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be make, you shall not make any for yourselves,
a memorial for the children of Israel before according to its composition. It shall be to you
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the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves.” holy for the LORD. Whoever makes any like it,
17 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
18 “You shall also make a laver of bronze, with
its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall Psalm 20:6–9
put it between the tabernacle of meeting and 6 Now I know that the LORD saves His
the altar. And you shall put water in it, for anointed;
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Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and He will answer him from His holy
their feet in water from it. When they go into heaven
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the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come With the saving strength of His right
near the altar to minister, to burn an offering hand.
made by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in
water, lest they die. So they shall wash their horses;
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hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall But we will remember the name of the
be a statute forever to them—to him and his LORD our God.
descendants throughout their generations.” 8
22 Moreover the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: They have bowed down and fallen;
23 “Also take for yourself quality spices—five But we have risen and stand upright.
hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much 9 Save, LORD!
sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and May the King answer us when we call.
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