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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 30 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Exodus 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/29.htm" title="Exodus 29">◄</a> Exodus 30 <a href="../exodus/31.htm" title="Exodus 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/exodus/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Altar of Incense</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1 1/2 feet long and wide and 3 feet high or about 45 centimeters long and wide and 90 centimeters high">a</a></sup></span> —its horns of one piece with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the <span class="name">Lord</span> for the generations to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or purification offering">b</a></sup></span> for the generations to come. It is most holy to the <span class="name">Lord</span>.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Atonement Money</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the <span class="name">Lord</span> a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.8 grams; also in verse 15">c</a></sup></span> according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span> to atone for your lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, making atonement for your lives.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Basin for Washing</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Anointing Oil</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 12 1/2 pounds or about 5.8 kilograms; also in verse 24">d</a></sup></span> of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 6 1/4 pounds or about 2.9 kilograms">e</a></sup></span> of fragrant calamus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters">f</a></sup></span> of olive oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Say to the Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Do not pour it on anyone else’s body and do not make any other oil using the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.’ ”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Incense</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/30-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1 1/2 feet long and wide and 3 feet high or about 45 centimeters long and wide and 90 centimeters high</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>purification offering</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.8 grams; also in verse 15</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 12 1/2 pounds or about 5.8 kilograms; also in verse 24</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 6 1/4 pounds or about 2.9 kilograms</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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