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"So you shall do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them for seven days.

"Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to consecrate it.

"For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

and there shall be a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.

"The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.

"Now you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

"You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.

"You shall also make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make them on its two sides—on opposite sides—and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

"When you take a census of the sons of Israel to count them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.

"The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.

"And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for yourselves."

"You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

"So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die; and it shall be a permanent statute for them, for Aaron and his descendants throughout their generations."

"Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250,

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take for yourself spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.

"And the incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

to create artistic designs for work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, so that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

the woven garments as well: the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, with which to carry out their priesthood;

the anointing oil also, and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place, they are to make them according to everything that I have commanded you."