Exodus 30

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 "For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,	1 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
2 with a square surface, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that spring directly from it.	2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, foursquare, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
3 Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns you shall plate with pure gold. Put a gold molding around it.	3 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well as the grate thereof, as the walls round about and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
4 Underneath the molding you shall put gold rings, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles used in carrying it.	4 And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
5 Make the poles, too, of acacia wood and plate them with gold.	5 And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
6 This altar you are to place in front of the veil that hangs before the ark of the commandments where I will meet you.	6 And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
7 "On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps,	7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
8 and again in the evening twilight, when he lights the lamps, he shall burn incense. Throughout your generations this shall be the established incense offering before the LORD.	8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
9 On this altar you shall not offer up any profane incense, or any holocaust or cereal offering; nor shall you pour out a libation upon it.	9 You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
10 Once a year Aaron shall perform the atonement rite on its horns. Throughout your generations this atonement is to be made once a year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. This altar is most sacred to the LORD."	10 And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin, and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.
11 The LORD also said to Moses,	11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 "When you take a census of the Israelites who are to be registered, each one, as he is enrolled, shall give the LORD a forfeit for his life, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.	12 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.
13 Everyone who enters the registered group must pay a half-shekel, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. This payment of a half-shekel is a contribution to the LORD.	13 And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.
14 Everyone of twenty years or more who enters the registered group must give this contribution to the LORD.	14 He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.
15 The rich need not give more, nor shall the poor give less, than a half-shekel in this contribution to the LORD to pay the forfeit for their lives.	15 The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.
16 When you receive this forfeit money from the Israelites, you shall donate it to the service of the meeting tent, that there it may be the Israelites' reminder before the LORD, of the forfeit paid for their lives."	16 And the money received which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.
17 The LORD said to Moses,	17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 "For ablutions you shall make a bronze laver with a bronze base. Place it between the meeting tent and the altar, and put water in it.	18 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot, to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it,
19 Aaron and his sons shall use it in washing their hands and feet.	19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:
20 When they are about to enter the meeting tent, they must wash with water, lest they die. Likewise when they approach the altar in their ministry, to offer an oblation to the LORD,	20 When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,
21 they must wash their hands and feet, lest they die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and his descendants throughout their generations."	21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.
22 The LORD said to Moses,	22 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
23 "Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of free-flowing myrrh; half that amount, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, of fragrant cinnamon; two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane;	23 Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty.
24 five hundred shekels of cassia-all according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel; together with a hin of olive oil;	24 And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:
25 and blend them into sacred anointing oil, perfumed ointment expertly prepared.	25 And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer,
26 With this sacred anointing oil you shall anoint the meeting tent and the ark of the commandments,	26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,
27 the table and all its appurtenances, the lampstand and its appurtenances, the altar of incense	27 And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,
28 and the altar of holocausts with all its appurtenances, and the laver with its base.	28 And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the service of them.
29 When you have consecrated them, they shall be most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred.	29 And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.
30 Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and consecrate as my priests.	30 Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
31 To the Israelites you shall say: As sacred anointing oil this shall belong to me throughout your generations.	31 And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
32 It may not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, nor may you make any other oil of a like mixture. It is sacred, and shall be treated as sacred by you.	32 The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.
33 Whoever prepares a perfume like this, or whoever puts any of this on a layman, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."	33 What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
34 The LORD told Moses, "Take these aromatic substances: storax and onycha and galbanum, these and pure frankincense in equal parts;	34 And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.
35 and blend them into incense. This fragrant powder, expertly prepared, is to be salted and so kept pure and sacred.	35 And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.
36 Grind some of it into fine dust and put this before the commandments in the meeting tent where I will meet you. This incense shall be treated as most sacred by you.	36 And when thou has beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be to you.
37 You may not make incense of a like mixture for yourselves; you must treat it as sacred to the LORD.	37 You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.
38 Whoever makes an incense like this for his own enjoyment of its fragrance, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."	38 What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.