New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 30:13-24

13This is what everyone who 1is counted shall give: half a 2shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (3the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a 4contribution to the Lord. 14Everyone who 5is counted, from twenty years old and over, shall give the 6contribution to the Lord. 15The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the 7contribution to the Lord to make atonement for 8yourselves. 16And you shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting, so that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for 9yourselves.”

17Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18“You shall also make 10a basin of 11bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall 12put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. 19Aaron and his sons shall 13wash their hands and their feet from it; 20when they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they do not die; or when they approach the altar to minister, by offering up in smoke a fire sacrifice to the Lord. 21So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die; and 14it shall be a permanent statute for them, for 15Aaron and his 16descendants throughout their generations.”

22Moreover, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23“Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of liquid myrrh 17five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250, 24and of cassia 500, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a 18hin.

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Notes

1. Exodus 30:13 Lit passes over to those who are mustered ↩
2. Exodus 30:13 A shekel was about 0.5 oz. or 14 gm ↩
3. Exodus 30:13 Lev 27:25; Num 3:47; Ezek 45:12 ↩
4. Exodus 30:13 Or uplifted offering ↩
5. Exodus 30:14 See note 1 v 13 ↩
6. Exodus 30:14 Or uplifted offering of the Lord ↩
7. Exodus 30:15 Or uplifted offering of the Lord ↩
8. Exodus 30:15 Lit your souls ↩
9. Exodus 30:16 Lit your souls ↩
10. Exodus 30:18 Ex 38:8 ↩
11. Exodus 30:18 Or copper ↩
12. Exodus 30:18 Ex 40:30 ↩
13. Exodus 30:19 Ex 40:31f; Is 52:11 ↩
14. Exodus 30:21 Ex 28:43 ↩
15. Exodus 30:21 Lit him ↩
16. Exodus 30:21 Lit seed ↩
17. Exodus 30:23 About 15.5 and 7.75 lb. or 7 and 3.5 kg ↩
18. Exodus 30:24 About 1 gallon or 3.8 liters ↩

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