1 "For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood,
2 with a square surface, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, with horns that spring directly from it.
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.
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.
5 Make the poles, too, of acacia wood and plate 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.
7 "On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps,
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.
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.
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."
11 The LORD also said to Moses,
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.
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.
14 Everyone of twenty years or more who enters the registered group must give this contribution to the LORD.
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.
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."
17 The LORD said to Moses,
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.
19 Aaron and his sons shall use it in washing their hands and feet.
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,
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."
22 The LORD said 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;
24 five hundred shekels of cassia-all according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel; together with a hin of olive oil;
25 and blend them into sacred anointing oil, perfumed ointment expertly prepared.
26 With this sacred anointing oil you shall anoint the meeting tent and the ark of the commandments,
27 the table and all its appurtenances, the lampstand and its appurtenances, the altar of incense
28 and the altar of holocausts with all its appurtenances, and the laver with its base.
29 When you have consecrated them, they shall be most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred.
30 Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and consecrate as my priests.
31 To the Israelites you shall say: As sacred anointing oil this shall belong to 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.
33 Whoever prepares a perfume like this, or whoever puts any of this on a layman, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."
34 The LORD told Moses, "Take these aromatic substances: storax and onycha and galbanum, these and pure frankincense in equal parts;
35 and blend them into incense. This fragrant powder, expertly prepared, is to be salted and so kept pure and sacred.
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.
37 You may not make incense of a like mixture for yourselves; you must treat it as sacred to the LORD.
38 Whoever makes an incense like this for his own enjoyment of its fragrance, shall be cut off from his kinsmen."
Versículos relacionados com Exodus, 30:
Exodus 30 deals with the making of the altar of incense, the offer of atonement of the middle-shekel, the washing bronze basin and the mixture of sacred oil. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in the chapter, excluding Exodus 30 verses:
Ezekiel 8:11: "And before them was the man standing, his right hand raised to the East; and worshiped the sun, putting himself to his left side." This verse talks about the idolatrous practice of worshiping the sun, which is contrary to the law of God. This relates to Exodus 30, which speaks of the offer of atonement of the middle-shekel as a form of redemption of God's people.
2 Chronicles 4:6: "He also did ten basins, and put five on the right and five on the left to wash them; the work of the Holocaust washed in them, but the basin was for the priests to wash." This verse describes the construction of the washing bronze basins, which were used in the Temple of Solomon. This relates to Exodus 30, which also speaks of the bronze basin for washing that was made for the tabernacle.
Leviticus 16:12: "And will take a censer full of embers of fire from the altar, from before the Lord, and both his hands full of aromatic incense powder, and will bring him into the veil." This verse talks about the use of incense in sacred service, which was placed on the altar of incense. This relates to Exodus 30, which speaks of making the altar of incense and the mixture of sacred oil to be used in it.
2 Kings 12:13: "However, of the money of the offers for the guilt and money of sin offers, there were no gold glasses or basins for ministry, nor for the burnt offering; because of that it was given to the workers." This verse talks about the use of guilt and sin offerings to finance the construction of the temple. This relates to Exodus 30, which speaks of the atonement of the atonement of the middle-shekel as a form of financing of the tabernacle.
Hebrews 7:25: "Therefore, it can also perfectly save those who come to God, always living to intercede for them." This verse talks about the intercession of Jesus Christ for sinners. This relates to Exodus 30, which talks about the offer of atonement of the middle-shekel as a form of redemption of the people of God and as a means of acclaiming to Him.
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