12. When you take a census of the Israelites who are to be enrolled, each one, as he is enrolled, shall give the Lord a ransom for his life, so that no plague may come upon them for being enrolled.
13. This is what everyone who is enrolled must pay: a half-shekel, according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel—twenty gerahs to the shekel—a half-shekel contribution to the Lord.
14. Everyone who is enrolled, of twenty years or more, must give the contribution to the Lord.
15. The rich need not give more, nor shall the poor give less, than a half-shekel in this contribution to the Lord to pay the ransom for their lives.
16. When you receive this ransom money from the Israelites, you shall donate it to the service of the tent of meeting, that there it may be a reminder of the Israelites before the Lord of the ransom paid for their lives.
17. The Lord told Moses:
18. For ablutions you shall make a bronze basin with a bronze stand. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
19. Aaron and his sons shall use it in washing their hands and feet.
20. When they are about to enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water, lest they die. Likewise when they approach the altar to minister, to offer an oblation to the Lord,
21. they must wash their hands and feet, lest they die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and his descendants throughout their generations.
22. The Lord told Moses:
23. Take the finest spices: five hundred shekels of free-flowing myrrh; half that amount, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, of fragrant cinnamon; two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cane;
24. five hundred shekels of cassia—all according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel; together with a hin of olive oil;
25. and blend them into sacred anointing oil, perfumed ointment expertly prepared. With this sacred anointing oil
26. you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the covenant,
27. the table and all its utensils, the menorah and its utensils, the altar of incense
28. and the altar for burnt offerings with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
29. When you have consecrated them, they shall be most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred.
30. Aaron and his sons you shall also anoint and consecrate as my priests.