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When they go into the meeting tent or approach the altar to minister and to offer a food gift to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they don't die.
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They must wash their hands and their feet so that they don't die. This will be a permanent regulation for them, for Aaron and his descendants in every generation.
Instructions for oil and incense
22 The LORD spoke to Moses:
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Now take for yourself high-quality spices: five hundred weight of solid myrrh; half as much of sweet-smelling cinnamon, that is, two hundred fifty; two hundred fifty weight of sweet-smelling cane;
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five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
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Prepare a holy anointing oil, blending them like a skilled perfume maker to produce the holy anointing oil.
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Use it to anoint the meeting tent, the chest containing the covenant,
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the table and all its equipment, the lampstand and its equipment, the incense altar,
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the altar for entirely burned offerings and all its equipment, and the washbasin with its stand.
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Make them holy so that they may be perfectly holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.
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Then anoint Aaron and his sons and make them holy to serve me as priests.