Verse 20
Exodus 30:20
Bible in Basic English
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Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,
Original Language Text
hebrew
בְּ/בֹאָ֞/ם אֶל אֹ֧הֶל מוֹעֵ֛ד יִרְחֲצוּ מַ֖יִם וְ/לֹ֣א יָמֻ֑תוּ א֣וֹ בְ/גִשְׁתָּ֤/ם אֶל הַ/מִּזְבֵּ֨חַ֙ לְ/שָׁרֵ֔ת לְ/הַקְטִ֥יר אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַֽ/יהוָֽה
English Translation
When they come into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, and they will not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, to offer a fire offering to the Lord.
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Chapter 30 Context
1
And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.
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The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to...
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It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of...
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Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifti...
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And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
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And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over...
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And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
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And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-...
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No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on i...
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And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to ma...
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11
And the Lord said to Moses,
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When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the...
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And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of...
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Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.
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The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when t...
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And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of me...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting an...
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That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;
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Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death;...
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Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as mu...
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And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oi...
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And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy o...
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This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law,
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And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on th...
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And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.
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And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.
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And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.
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And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.
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It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to...
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Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.
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And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankin...
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And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and...
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And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will com...
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You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.
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Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.
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