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Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.
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And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
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And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you.
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And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.
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And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.
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No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.
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And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.
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And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.
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Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.