1. Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
2. It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, foursquare, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
3. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well as the grate thereof, as the walls round about and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
4. And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
5. And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
6. And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
7. And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
8. And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
9. You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
10. And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin, and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.
11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12. When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.
13. And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.
14. He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.