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Today's Bible Reading :: Exodus 30 - 32 (ESV)

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Exodus 30

The Altar of Incense

(Exo 37:25–28 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:1 - “You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:2 - A cubit[fn] shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:4 - And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:5 - You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:6 - And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:8 - and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:9 - You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”

The Census Tax

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:11 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel[fn] according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),[fn] half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:14 - Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”

The Bronze Basin

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:17 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - “You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:19 - with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:20 - When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering[fn] to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”

The Anointing Oil and Incense

(Exo 37:29 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:22 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin[fn] of olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:25 - And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26 - With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:27 - and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:28 - and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:29 - You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:30 - You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:31 - And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:32 - It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:33 - Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
(Exo 37:29 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:35 - and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:36 - You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:37 - And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:38 - Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”
ESV Footnotes
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
Or an offering by fire
A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters

Exodus 31

Oholiab and Bezalel

(Exo 35:30—36:1 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:1 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:2 - “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:3 - and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5 - in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:6 - And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:8 - the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:9 - and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:10 - and the finely worked garments,[fn] the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:11 - and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.”

The Sabbath

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:12 - And the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:13 - “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14 - You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:16 - Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
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Or garments for worship

Exodus 32

The Golden Calf

(Deu 9:6–29 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:2 - So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:3 - So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden[fn] calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:5 - When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:7 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:9 - And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:14 - And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:18 - But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:21 - And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:23 - For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:24 - So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:25 - And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies),

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:29 - And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:31 - So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:35 - Then the LORD sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
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Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8
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