New International Reader's Version

Exodus 30:16-27 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

16. "Receive the money from the people of Israel. Use it for any purpose in the Tent of Meeting. It will remind the people that they are paying me for their lives."

17. Then the Lord spoke to Moses. He said,

18. "Make a large bronze bowl for washing. Make a bronze stand to put it on. Place the bowl between the Tent of Meeting and the altar. Put water in it.

19. "Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and feet with water from it.

20. When they enter the Tent of Meeting, they must wash with water so that they will not die. They will come to the altar to serve me. They will bring an offering that is made to me with fire.

21. When they do, they must wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. For all time to come, that will be a law for Aaron and the priests who are in his family line."

22. Then the Lord spoke to Moses.

23. He said, "Get some fine spices. Get 12 pounds eight ounces of liquid myrrh. Get six pounds four ounces of sweet-smelling cinnamon and the same amount of sweet-smelling cane.

24. Also get 12 pounds eight ounces of cassia. All of the spices must be weighed out in keeping with the standard weights that are used in the sacred tent. Get four quarts of olive oil.

25. "Have a person who makes perfume mix everything into a sacred anointing oil. It will smell sweet.

26. "Then anoint the Tent of Meeting and the ark where the tablets of the covenant are kept.

27. Anoint the table for the holy bread and all of its articles. Anoint the lampstand and the things that are used with it. Anoint the altar for burning incense.