12. “When you take a census of the people of Israel, each man is to pay me a price for his life, so that no disaster will come on him while the census is being taken.
13. Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money, weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.
14. Everyone being counted in the census, that is, every man twenty years old or older, is to pay me this amount.
15. The rich man is not to pay more, nor the poor man less, when they pay this amount for their lives.
16. Collect this money from the people of Israel and spend it for the upkeep of the Tent of my presence. This tax will be the payment for their lives, and I will remember to protect them.”
17. The Lord said to Moses,
18. “Make a bronze basin with a bronze base. Place it between the Tent and the altar, and put water in it.
19. Aaron and his sons are to use the water to wash their hands and feet
20. before they go into the Tent or approach the altar to offer the food offering. Then they will not be killed.
21. They must wash their hands and feet, so that they will not die. This is a rule which they and their descendants are to observe for ever.”
22. The Lord said to Moses,
23. “Take the finest spices — six kilogrammes of liquid myrrh, three kilogrammes of sweet-smelling cinnamon, three kilogrammes of sweet-smelling cane,
24. and six kilogrammes of cassia (all weighed according to the official standard). Add four litres of olive oil,