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Text -- Exodus 30:1-34 (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 :
30:18 “You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing . You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it ,
30:19 and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it.
30:20 When they enter the tent of meeting , they must wash with water so that they do not die . Also , when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the Lord ,
30:21 they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die . And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations .”
Oil and Incense
30:22 The Lord spoke to Moses :
30:23 “Take choice spices : twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh , half that– about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon , six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane ,
30:24 and twelve and a half pounds of cassia , all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel , and four quarts of olive oil .
30:25 You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil , a perfumed compound , the work of a perfumer . It will be sacred anointing oil .
30:26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting , the ark of the testimony ,
30:27 the table and all its utensils , the lampstand and its utensils , the altar of incense ,
30:28 the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils , and the laver and its base .
30:29 So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy ; anything that touches them will be holy .
30:30 “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests .
30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites : ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations .
30:32 It must not be applied to people’s bodies , and you must not make any like it with the same recipe . It is holy , and it must be holy to you.
30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people .’”
30:34 The Lord said to Moses : “Take spices , gum resin , onycha , galbanum , and pure frankincense of equal amounts
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Tabernacle |
Altar |
Revelation |
Israel |
Spices |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
Incense |
Ointment |
Laver |
TABERNACLE, A |
EXCOMMUNICATION |
PERFUMES |
OIL, ANOINTING |
Atonement |
Holy place |
Censer |
Purification |
Anointing |
Oil |
Anointing Oil |
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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; Exo 30:18; Exo 30:18; Exo 30:18; Exo 30:19; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:20; Exo 30:21; Exo 30:21; Exo 30:21; Exo 30:21; Exo 30:21; Exo 30:22; Exo 30:22; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:23; Exo 30:24; Exo 30:24; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:25; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:29; Exo 30:30; Exo 30:32; Exo 30:33; Exo 30:33; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34; Exo 30:34
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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NET Notes: Exo 30:20 The translation “as an offering made by fire” is a standard rendering of the one word in the text that appears to refer to “fire....
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NET Notes: Exo 30:21 The symbolic meaning of washing has been taught throughout the ages. This was a practical matter of cleaning hands and feet, but it was also symbolic ...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:23 Myrrh is an aromatic substance that flows from the bark of certain trees in Arabia and Africa and then hardens. “The hardened globules of the gu...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:24 Or “a hin.” A hin of oil is estimated at around one gallon (J. Durham, Exodus [WBC], 3:406).
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NET Notes: Exo 30:25 The somewhat rare words rendered “a perfumed compound” are both associated with a verbal root having to do with mixing spices and other in...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:29 See Exod 29:37; as before, this could refer to anything or anyone touching the sanctified items.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:30 The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive follows the imperfect of instruction; it may be equal to the instruction, but more likely shows the p...
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NET Notes: Exo 30:32 Without an expressed subject, the verb may be treated as a passive. Any common use, as in personal hygiene, would be a complete desecration.
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NET Notes: Exo 30:33 The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.
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