Bible Reading
March 18
The World English Bible
Mar.
18
Exodus
30, 31
Exo
30:1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall
make it of acacia wood.
Exo
30:2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall
be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of
one piece with it.
Exo
30:3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around
it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
Exo
30:4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on
its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be
for places for poles with which to bear it.
Exo
30:5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold.
Exo
30:6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the
testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I
will meet with you.
Exo
30:7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning.
When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
Exo
30:8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a
perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Exo
30:9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering,
nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
Exo
30:10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with
the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall
make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to
Yahweh."
Exo
30:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel,
according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall
give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that
there be no plague among them when you number them.
Exo
30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who
are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the
shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
Exo
30:14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from
twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
Exo
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give
less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to
make atonement for your souls.
Exo
30:16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of
Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting;
that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh,
to make atonement for your souls."
Exo
30:17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of
brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting
and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
Exo
30:19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in
it.
Exo
30:20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with
water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to
minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Exo
30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not
die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to
his descendants throughout their generations."
Exo
30:22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
30:23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred
shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and
fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
Exo
30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
and a hin of olive oil.
Exo
30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded
after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Exo
30:26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the
testimony,
Exo
30:27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its
accessories, the altar of incense,
Exo
30:28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the
basin with its base.
Exo
30:29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever
touches them shall be holy.
Exo
30:30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that
they may minister to me in the priest's office.
Exo
30:31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall
be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
Exo
30:32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make
any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be
holy to you.
Exo
30:33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a
stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.' "
Exo
30:34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum
resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense:
of each shall there be an equal weight;
Exo
30:35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of
the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
Exo
30:36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it
before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with
you. It shall be to you most holy.
Exo
30:37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition
you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for
Yahweh.
Exo
30:38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be
cut off from his people."
Exo
31:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
31:2 "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exo
31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
Exo
31:4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
in brass,
Exo
31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood,
to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exo
31:6 I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are
wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have
commanded you:
Exo
31:7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat
that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
Exo
31:8 the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its
vessels, the altar of incense,
Exo
31:9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and
its base,
Exo
31:10 the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the
priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office,
Exo
31:11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the
holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall
do."
Exo
31:12 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
31:13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most
certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and
you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies you.
Exo
31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you.
Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever
does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
Exo
31:15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a
Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the
Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
Exo
31:16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to
observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual
covenant.
Exo
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever;
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day
he rested, and was refreshed.' "
Exo
31:18 He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount
Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with
God's finger.
