1. "You shall also make an altar, for the burning of incense, from setim wood,
2. having one cubit in length, and another in width, that is, four equal sides, and two cubits in height. Horns shall proceed from the same.
3. And you shall clothe it with the purest gold, both its grating and the walls around it, and also the horns. And you shall make for it a crown of gold in a circle,
4. and two gold rings under the crown on each side, so that the bars may be set in them and the altar may be carried.
5. Also, you shall make its bars of setim wood, and you shall overlay them with gold.
6. And you shall set the altar opposite the veil, which hangs in front of the ark of the testimony, before the propitiatory with which the testimony is covered, where I will speak to you.
7. And Aaron shall burn incense upon it, a sweet fragrance, in the morning. When he lights the lamps, he shall burn it.
8. And when he assembles 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 an oblation, nor a victim; neither shall you offer libations.
10. And Aaron shall pray over its horns once a year, with the blood of what was offered for sin. And he shall make atonement over it in your generations. It shall be the Holy of holies to the Lord."
11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12. "When you have taken the sum of the sons of Israel, according to their number, each shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there will be no scourge among them, when they will be reviewed.
13. Then all those who pass shall give by name: one half shekel, according to the measure at the temple. A shekel has twenty obols. The half part of a shekel shall be offered to the Lord.