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All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on.

For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.

And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.

When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.

That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.

And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,

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 keep it holy.

You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,

And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,