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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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You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.
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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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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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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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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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He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.
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The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man shall diminish nothing.
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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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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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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: