Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
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You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
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It shall be one cubit long, and one cubit wide; it shall be square, and shall be two cubits high; its horns shall be of one piece with it.
3 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
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You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, and its sides all around and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.
4 And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
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And you shall make two golden rings for it; under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall hold the poles with which to carry it.
5 And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
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You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and 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.
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You shall place it in front of the curtain that is above the ark of the covenant, in front of the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
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Aaron shall offer fragrant incense on it; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall offer it,
8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
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and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall offer it, a regular incense offering 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.
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You shall not offer unholy incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering; and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.
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.
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Once a year Aaron shall perform the rite of atonement on its horns. Throughout your generations he shall perform the atonement for it once a year with the blood of the atoning sin offering. It is most holy to the Lord.
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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The Lord spoke to Moses:
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.
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When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, at registration all of them shall give a ransom for their lives to the Lord, so that no plague may come upon them for being registered.
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.
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This is what each one who is registered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
14 He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.
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Each one who is registered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord's offering.
15 The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.
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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you bring this offering to the Lord to make atonement for your lives.
16 And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.
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You shall take the atonement money from the Israelites and shall designate it for the service of the tent of meeting; before the Lord it will be a reminder to the Israelites of the ransom given for your lives.
17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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The Lord spoke to Moses:
18 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it:
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You shall make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it;
19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:
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with the water Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
20 When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,
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When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to make an offering by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.
21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.
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They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his descendants throughout their generations.
22 And the Lord spoke to Moses,
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The Lord spoke to Moses:
23 Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,
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Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred fifty, and two hundred fifty of aromatic cane,
24 And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:
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and five hundred of cassia—measured by the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil;
25 And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment compounded after the art of the perfumer,
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and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testament,
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With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the covenant,
27 And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of incense,
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and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
28 And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the service of them.
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and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand;
29 And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be sanctified.
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you shall consecrate them, so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.
30 Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
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You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, in order that they may serve me as priests.
31 And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.
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You shall say to the Israelites, "This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
32 The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall make none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto you.
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It shall not be used in any ordinary anointing of the body, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
33 What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.
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Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people."
34 And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.
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The Lord said to Moses: Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (an equal part of each),
35 And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification.
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and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy;
36 And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.
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and you shall beat some of it into powder, and put part of it before the covenant in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy.
37 You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.
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When you make incense according to this composition, you shall not make it for yourselves; it shall be regarded by you as holy to the Lord.
38 What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.
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Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from the people.
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