^{1 Ref} `And thou hast made an altar `for' making perfume; `of' shittim wood thou dost make it;

^{2 Ref} a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns `are' of the same.

^{3 Ref} `And thou hast overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and thou hast made to it a crown of gold round about;

^{4 Ref} and two rings of gold thou dost make to it under its crown; on its two ribs thou dost make `them', on its two sides, and they have become places for staves, to bear it with them.

^{5 Ref} `And thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold;

^{6 Ref} and thou hast put it before the vail, which `is' by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which `is' over the testimony, whither I am met with thee.

^{7 Ref} `And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it,

^{8 Ref} and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations.

^{9 Ref} `Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;

^{10 Ref} and Aaron hath made atonement on its horns, once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year doth he make atonement for it, to your generations; it `is' most holy to Jehovah.'

¹¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

^{12 Ref} `When thou takest up the sum of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have given each an atonement `for' his soul to Jehovah in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.

^{13 Ref} `This they do give, every one passing over unto those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel `is' twenty gerahs); half a shekel `is' the heave-offering to Jehovah;

^{14 Ref} every one passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, doth give the heave-offering of Jehovah;

^{15 Ref} the rich doth not multiply, and the poor doth not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

^{16 Ref} `And thou hast taken the atonement-money from the sons of Israel, and hast given it for the service of the tent of meeting; and it hath been to the sons of Israel for a memorial before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.'

¹⁷ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

^{18 Ref} `And thou hast made a laver of brass (and its base of brass), for washing; and thou hast put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and hast put water there;

^{19 Ref} and Aaron and his sons have washed at it their hands and their feet,