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Text -- Exodus 30:1-17 (NET)
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The Altar of Incense
30:1 “You are to make an altar for burning incense ; you are to make it of acacia wood .
30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half ; it will be square . Its height is to be three feet , with its horns of one piece with it.
30:3 You are to overlay it with pure gold – its top , its four walls , and its horns – and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
30:4 You are to make two gold rings for it under its border , on its two flanks ; you are to make them on its two sides . The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.
30:5 You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold .
30:6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony ), where I will meet you.
30:7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning ; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense .
30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations .
30:9 You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering , nor meal offering , and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.
30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement ; once in the year he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations . It is most holy to the Lord .”
The Ransom Money
30:11 The Lord spoke to Moses :
30:12 “When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number , then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.
30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs ). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord .
30:14 Everyone who crosses over to those numbered , from twenty years old and up , is to pay an offering to the Lord .
30:15 The rich are not to increase it, and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the Lord , to make atonement for your lives .
30:16 You are to receive the atonement money from the Israelites and give it for the service of the tent of meeting . It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord , to make atonement for your lives .”
The Bronze Laver
30:17 The Lord spoke to Moses :
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Altar |
Tabernacle |
Israel |
Revelation |
Spices |
Incense |
Atonement |
Holy place |
TABERNACLE, A |
Censer |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
TAXES |
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 |
JEHOASH; JOASH |
Tax |
TAX; TAXING |
Religion |
LAW OF MOSES |
Census |
MONEY-CHANGERS |
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NET Notes -> Exo 30:1; Exo 30:1; Exo 30:1; Exo 30:1; Exo 30:2; Exo 30:2; Exo 30:2; Exo 30:3; Exo 30:3; Exo 30:3; Exo 30:4; Exo 30:4; Exo 30:4; Exo 30:7; Exo 30:7; Exo 30:7; Exo 30:10; Exo 30:10; Exo 30:10; Exo 30:11; Exo 30:11; Exo 30:12; Exo 30:12; Exo 30:12; Exo 30:12; Exo 30:13; Exo 30:13; Exo 30:13; Exo 30:13; Exo 30:15; Exo 30:15; Exo 30:15; Exo 30:16; Exo 30:16; Exo 30:16; Exo 30:16; Exo 30:17; Exo 30:17
NET Notes: Exo 30:1 See M. Haran, “The Uses of Incense in Ancient Israel Ritual,” VT 10 (1960): 113-15; N. Glueck, “Incense Altars,” Translating a...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:3 Heb “and make for it border gold around.” The verb is a consecutive perfect. See Exod 25:11, where the ark also has such a molding.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:7 The point of the little golden altar of incense is normally for intercessory prayer, and then at the Day of Atonement for blood applied atonement. The...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:10 The phrase “most holy to the Lord” means that the altar cannot be used for any other purpose than what is stated here.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:11 Heb “and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.” This full means for introducing a quotation from the Lord is used again in 30:17, 22; 31:1; and 4...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:12 The temporal clause uses a preposition, an infinitive construct, and then an accusative. The subject is supplied: “in numbering them” mean...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:15 This infinitive construct (לְכַפֵּר, lÿkhapper) provides the purpose of the giving the offering &...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:16 The infinitive could be taken in a couple of ways here. It could be an epexegetical infinitive: “making atonement.” Or it could be the inf...
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