The Sayings of God

Make an Holy Incense

Take spices for yourself: balsam, clove and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense. It is to be part by part. Make of it an incense, a mixture, the work of a mixer, blended, pure, sanctified. Grind powder from it and put it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, there, where I will be met by you. It will be the holiest of holies for you. Do not prepare the incense which you make, of its composition, for yourselves. It is sanctified to you for the Eternal. A man who produces any like it, to be scented with it, will be cut off from his people. - Exodus 30:34-38

Make an Holy Anointing Oil

And you, take fine spices for yourself: pure myrrh, five hundred; and cinnamon spice, half of it, two hundred and fifty; and calamus spice, two hundred and fifty; and cassia, five hundred in the holy ounce;and olive oil, a gallon. Make it a holy anointing oil, a mixed mixture, the work of a mixer. It is to be holy anointing oil. You are to anoint with it: the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the table and all of its utensils, the candelabrum and its utensils, the incense altar, the ascension altar and all of its utensils, and the basin and its base. Sanctify them, so they become the holiest of holies. All that touches them will be sanctified. Then, anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them to be priests for me. And speak to the children of Israel saying: This will be a holy anointing oil for me throughout your generations. It may not be poured on man's flesh, and do not make any like it, of its composition. It is holy. It will be holy to you. A man who mixes any like it and puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.
- Exodus 30:23-33

You are to Make a Copper Basin

You are to make a copper basin and its copper base for washing. Put it between the tent of meeting and the altar. Put water there. Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and their feet from it. They are to wash with water when they come to the tent of meeting or when they approach the altar to officiate, to burn a fire-offering to the Eternal, so they do not die. They will wash their hands and their feet, and they will not die. It is to be an everlasting decree for him and for his descendants throughout their generations. - Exodus 30:18-21

Take the Census of the Children of Israel

When you take the census of the children of Israel by their numbers, each man is to give a ransom for his soul to the Eternal, as you number them. Therefore, there will not be a plague on them while you number them. All who pass with the numbered will give this: half a shekel of the holy shekel, twenty pennyweights per shekel, half the shekel, a raised-offering to the Eternal. All who pass with the numbered, aged twenty years and upwards, will give a raised-offering for the Eternal. The rich may not increase, and the needy may not decrease from the half shekel to give the raised-offering for the Eternal to atone for your souls. Take the atonement silver from the children of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the children of Israel, before the Eternal, to atone for your souls. - Exodus 30:12-16